Transition from marine to hypersaline conditions in the Messinian Tripoli Formation from the marginal areas of the central Sicilian Basin

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 87-105

  Bellanca, A ^a   Caruso, A ^a   Ferruzza, G ^a   Neri, R ^a   Rouchy, J M ^b   Sprovieri, M ^a   Blanc Valleron, M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Central Sicilian Basin; Mediterranean; Messinian; Salinity crisis; Stable isotopes; Tripoli Fm.

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY; SEDIMENTATION;

ITALY;

EID: 0035046194     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00173-1     Document Type: Article

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