A box model of the blocked-outflow scenario for the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 486-494

  Meijer, P Th ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Box model; Evaporite; Mediterranean Sea; Messinian; Modelling

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

BLOCKED-OUTFLOW STATE; BOX MODEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINIAN EVAPORITES;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

EVAPORITE; INFLOW; MESSINIAN; MODELING; SALINITY; WATER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33746516865     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.013     Document Type: Article

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