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Pliocene and Pleistocene Magnetic Stratigraphy in Le Castella Area, Southern Italy—A Preliminary Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Hisao Nakagawa
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Paleontology Tohoku University, 980 Sendai, Japan
Nobuaki Niitsuma
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Paleontology Tohoku University, 980 Sendai, Japan
Carlo Elmi
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Paleontology University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy

Abstract

A preliminary study was made of the magnetic stratigraphy of the Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene marine sediments in Le Castella area, Calabria, Southern Italy. Microbiostratigraphic evidence of the measured sediments provides a basis for tentative correlation with the standard magnetic chronology. The Gilsa Event in the Matuyama Reversed Polarity Epoch is estimated to be a little older than the lower limit of the Calabrian in Le Castella area.

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University of Washington

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