Calibrating the duration and timing of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean: Linked tectonoclimatic signals in thrust-top basins of Sicily

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 827-835

  Butler, R W H ^a   McClelland, E ^b   Jones, R E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mediterranean; Messinian; Sicily; Syn tectonic sedimentation

Indexed keywords

EUSTACY; EVAPORITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESSINIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032721327     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.4.0827     Document Type: Article

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