The geological history of messinian (upper miocene) evaporites in the central Jordan Valley (Israel) and how strontium and sulfur isotopes relate to their origin

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 296-324

  Raab, M ^a   Friedman, G M ^b   Spiro, B ^c   Starinsky, A ^d   Zak, I ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORITE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0031400710     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175424     Document Type: Article

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