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The Gelasian Stage (Upper Pliocene): A new unit of the global standard chronostratigraphic scale

D. Rio Rodolfo Sprovieri Davide Castradori Enrico Di Stefano

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Abstract

The Gelasian has been formally accepted as third (and uppermost) subdivision of the Pliocene Series, thus representing the Upper Pliocene. The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point for the Gelasian is located in the Monte S. Nicola section (near Gela, Sicily, Italy).

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Rio et al. (1998) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a31dffd2a26219c96521f9e https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/1998/v21i2/002

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