THE PLEISTOCENE CALCAREOUS TUFA OF SANTA SABINA (PERUGIA, CENTRAL ITALY): STRATIGRAPHY, PALYNOLOGY AND VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

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Published: Jan 15, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26382/
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Pleistocene, calcareous tufa, Santa Sabina, mammal fauna, palynology

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Fausto Pazzaglia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Massimiliano R. Barchi
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Nicoletta Buratti
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Marco Cherin
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Marianna Ricci
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze

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ABSTRACT: Pazzaglia F. et al., The Pleistocene calcareous tufa of Santa Sabina (Perugia, central Italy): stratigraphy, palynology and vertebrate paleontology. (IT ISSN 0394-3356, 2011) An integrated sedimentological, geochronological, paleontological (mammal fauna) and palynological study was carried out on the calcareous tufa of Santa Sabina, outcropping in the Ellera basin (Perugia, central Italy). Previous U/Th datings on the investigated sections provided an absolute age of 115±8 ka as confirmed by the vertebrate fauna which could be biochronologically referred to the early-middle Aurelian Mammal Age. It corresponds to the MIS 5e, and to the last interglacial period (Eemian) characterised by wet and warm climate conditions suitable for calcareous tufa depositon.

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Pazzaglia, Fausto, Massimiliano R. Barchi, Nicoletta Buratti, Marco Cherin, and Marianna Ricci , trans. 2011. “THE PLEISTOCENE CALCAREOUS TUFA OF SANTA SABINA (PERUGIA, CENTRAL ITALY): STRATIGRAPHY, PALYNOLOGY AND VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY”. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 24 (Extended Abstract): 161-63. https://doi.org/10.26382/.
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