Mediterranean Messinian salinity crisis: Constraints from a coeval marginal basin, Sorbas, southeastern Spain

Marine Geology

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-20

  Riding, Robert ^a   Braga, Juan C ^b   Martín, José M ^b   Sánchez Almazo, Isabel M ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mediterranean; Messinian; Salinity crisis; Sorbas Basin; Spain

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; SALINITY CRISIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 0032055169     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00136-9     Document Type: Article

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