Testing models for the Messinian salinity crisis: The Messinian record in Almería, SE Spain

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 188-189, Issue , 2006, Pages 131-154

  Braga, Juan C ^a   Martín, José M ^a   Riding, Robert ^b   Aguirre, Julio ^a   Sánchez Almazo, Isabel M ^a   Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Almer a; Evaporites; Messinian Salinity Crisis; Palaeoenvironments; Spain; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

EVAPORITE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MESSINIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33744931915     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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