Summary of Italian marine stages of the Quaternary

作     者：Maria Bianca Cita 

作者机构：Universita di Milano Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra ＂Ardito Desio＂via Mangiagalli 34 20133 Milano Italy. 

出 版 物：《Episodes》 (地质幕（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第31卷第2期

页      面：251-254页

核心收录：

学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 081803[工学-地质工程] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 

主　　题：地球 第四纪地质时代 意大利 航海业 

摘      要：Eight marine stages for the Quaternary have been defined in Italy starting from 1872 （Sicilian of Doderlein） to 1979 （Selinuntian of Ruggieri and Sprovieri）. The definition of all these stages was based essentially on invertebrate paleontology, initially from the study of pelecypods and gastropods, but also of corals, ostracods, benthic foraminifers and, more recently, on planktonic foraminifers and calcareous nannofossils. The 1948 International Geological Congress held in London decided to search for a locality in Italy to define the Neogene/Quaternary boundary in correspondence with the first appearance of the ＂northern guests＂ in the Mediterranean. The Vrica section of Calabria was selected for defining the GSSP of the Pleistocene in 1984.