The Messinian post-evaporitic deposits of the Gafares area (Almería-Níjar basin, SE Spain). A new view of the "Lago-Mare" facies

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 71-95

  Aguirre, Julio ^a   Sánchez Almazo, Isabel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Almer a basin; Gafares; Lago Mare; Messinian salinity crisis; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EVAPORITE; MARGINAL BASIN; MESSINIAN;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 2942597594     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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