How much did climate force the Messinian salinity crisis? Quantified climatic conditions from pollen records in the Mediterranean region

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 238, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 281-301

  Fauquette, Séverine ^a,b   Suc, Jean Pierre ^b   Bertini, Adele ^c   Popescu, Speranta Maria ^b   Warny, Sophie ^d   Bachiri Taoufiq, Naïma ^e   Perez Villa, Maria Jesus ^f   Chikhi, Hafida ^g   Feddi, Najat ^h   Subally, Danica ⁱ   Clauzon, Georges ^j   Ferrier, Jacqueline ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES BEN M SIK   (Morocco)

^f Escola Industrial 23   (Spain)

^g Université Caddi Ayyad ^*  (France)

^h CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^j CEREGE   (France)

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Author keywords

Black Sea; Climate quantification; Mediterranean; Messinian; Pollen

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DESICCATION; MESSINIAN; PALEOSALINITY; POLLEN; SEDIMENTATION; TREE;

AFRICA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; PO VALLEY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 33746833026     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.029     Document Type: Article

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