AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY HOLOCENE "EOLIAN" DEPOSITS OF GROTTA ROMANELLI, APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY

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Francesca Giustini
Fabio Bona
Mauro Brilli
Jacopo Conti
Alessia D’Agostino
Giuseppe Lembo
Ilaria Mazzini
Beniamino Mecozzi
Brunella Muttillo
Raffaele Sardella

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Due to its geographic position and geomorphological configuration, Grotta Romanelli acted as a sediment trap since at least MIS 5. The so-called ‘terre brune’ sequence is a deposit mainly of eolian origin bearing upper Palaeolithic artefacts and fossil remains of vertebrate fauna; it was deposited during the Glacial-Interglacial transition and the Holocene. Sedimentology and mineralogy of this deposit are investigated. The stratigraphic sequence provides a promising archive within which both human and climatic impacts can be studied.

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Giustini, Francesca, Fabio Bona, Mauro Brilli, Jacopo Conti, Alessia D’Agostino, Giuseppe Lembo, Ilaria Mazzini, Beniamino Mecozzi, Brunella Muttillo, and Raffaele Sardella , trans. 2018. “AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY HOLOCENE ‘EOLIAN’ DEPOSITS OF GROTTA ROMANELLI, APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY”. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 31 (May): 135-39. https://amq.aiqua.it/index.php/amq/article/view/203.
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