Messinian salt fluxes into the present-day Eastern Mediterranean: Implications for budget calculations and stagnation

Marine Geology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 241-251

  Van Santvoort, P J M ^a   De Lange, G J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CALCULATIONS; EVAPORITE; EVAPORITES; MESSINIAN; MESSINIAN FLUXES; MIOCENE; PROVENANCE; SALT BUDGET; SALT FLUX; SEAWATER; STAGNATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA, (EASTERN);

EID: 0030153536     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(95)00164-6     Document Type: Article

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