Alternate interpretation of the Messinian salinity crisis: Controversy resolved?

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 363-366

  Clauzon, Georges ^a   Suc, Jean Pierre ^b   Gautier, François ^c   Berger, André ^d   Loutre, Marie France ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

DIACHRONEITY; EVAPORITES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MESSINIAN; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; TWO-STEP MODEL;

DEPOSITION;

CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITION; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL; DIACHRONEITY; MIOCENE; SALINITY CRISIS; SEA LEVEL VARIATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0029767363     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0363:AIOTMS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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