Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 602-606

  Duggen, Svend ^a,b   Hoernle, Kaj ^a   Van den Bogaard, Paul ^a   Rüpke, Lars ^a   Morgan, Jason Phipps ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; EARTH (PLANET); GEOCHEMISTRY; ROCKS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

GEODYNAMICS; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MESSINIAN; PLATE BOUNDARY; SALINITY; THERMOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANO;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0037431304     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01553     Document Type: Article

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