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Italian Journal of Geosciences
ISSN 2038-1719
Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana
e del Servizio Geologico d’Italia
Editorial. Consolidating the new deal of the Italian Journal of Geosciences (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.40) . . . .
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GHINASSI M. & SAGRI M. - Going over 30 years of geological and paleontological studies on the
Pliocene-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Tuscany, Italy) (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.39) . . . . . . . . . .
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FIDOLINI F., GHINASSI M., MAGI M., PAPINI M. & SAGRI M. - The Plio-Pleistocene fluvio-lacustrine Upper
Valdarno Basin (central Italy): stratigraphy and Basin fill evolution (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.06) . . .
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GHINASSI M., FIDOLINI F., MAGI M. & SAGRI M. - Depositional environments of the Plio-Pleistocene Upper
Valdarno Basin (Tuscany, Italy) (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.07) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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BONINI M., MORATTI G., SANI F. & BALESTRIERI M.L. - Compression-to-extension record in the Late
Pliocene-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy): structural and
thermochronological constraints (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2011.18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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BROGI A., FIDOLINI F. & LIOTTA D. - Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Upper Valdarno Basin:
new insights from the lacustrine S. Barbara Basin (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.08) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ROOK L. & ANGELONE C. - Just a few: rodents and lagomorphs in the Plio-Pleistocene fossil record of
the Upper Valdarno Basin (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ROOK L., CROITOR R., DELFINO M., FERRETTI M.P., GALLAI G. & PAVIA M. - The Upper Valdarno PlioPleistocene vertebrate record: an historical overview, with notes on palaeobiology and stratigraphic
significance of some important taxa (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ESU D. & GHINASSI M. - The non-marine molluscs of the Plio-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Tuscany,
central Italy): depositional environments, palaeoecology and biochronology (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.22)
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BERTINI A. - Climate and vegetation in the Upper Valdarno Basin (central Italy) as a response to Northern
Hemisphere insolation forcing and regional tectonics in the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene
(doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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FIDOLINI F. & ANDREETTA A. - Integrating sedimentological and palaeopedological data for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: examples from the Plio-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin (Northern
Apennines, Italy) (doi: 10.3301/IJG.2012.26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Cover: Alluvial-fan deposits along the Northern margin of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin
(Northern Apennines, Italy) (photo by M. Ghinassi).
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Volume 132 (CXXXII) - Number 1 - February 2013
Italian Journal of Geosciences
«The Pliocene-Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin
(Northern Apennines, Italy)»
Edited by
MASSIMILIANO GHINASSI & MARIO SAGRI
Volume 132 (cxxxII)
Number 1 - February 2013
Editors
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