• A GUIDE-LEVEL OF THE UPPERMOST HAUTERIVIAN (LOWER CRETACEOUS) IN THE PELAGIC SUCCESSION OF UMBRIA-MARCHE APENNINES (CENTRAL ITALY): THE FARAONI LEVEL
  • CECCA, FABRZIO
  • MARINI, AGOSTNIO
  • PALLINI, GIOVANNI
  • BAUDIN, FRANÇOIS
  • BEGOUEN, VERONIQUE

Subject

  • Stratigraphy
  • Lower Cretaceous
  • Hauterivian
  • Black Shales
  • Organic matter
  • Ammonites
  • Umbria-Marche Apennines.

Description

  • The definition of a regional guide-level, named Faraoni Level, in the Maiolica limestone of the Umbria-Marche Apennines is proposed in this paper. The age of the Faraoni Level is latest Hauterivian. Abundant ammonites date it as angulicostata zone, catulloi subzone. The level is characterized by the alternation of white micritic limestones and black shales with high organic marrer conrent.

Date

  • 1993-12-29

Type

  • info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Format

  • application/pdf

Identifier

https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/8897

10.13130/2039-4942/8897

Relations

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