Messinian deep-water turbidites and glacioeustatic sea-level changes in the North Atlantic: Linkage to the Mediterranean salinity crisis

Paleoceanography

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 277-297

  Zhang, Jijun ^a   Scott, David B ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER;

FORAMINIFERA; MEDITERRANEAN SALINITY CRISIS; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; SALINITY CRISIS; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORAMINIFER; LEG; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL; TURBIDITY; ZANCLEAN;

ATLANTIC, LABRADOR SEA, ODP SITE 646B; ATLANTIC, ROCKALL PLATEAU, DSDP SITE 552A;

EID: 0029811504     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA00572     Document Type: Article

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