The Mediterranean water body in the late Messinian: Interpreting the record from marginal basins on Sicily

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 837-846

  Keogh, S M ^a   Butler, R W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

87Sr 86Sr; Evaporites; Mediterranean; Messinian; Sicily

Indexed keywords

EUSTACY; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; SALINITY;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032746557     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.4.0837     Document Type: Article

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