Messinian climate change and erosional destruction of the central European Alps

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 613-616

  Willett, Sean D ^a   Schlunegger, Fritz ^b   Picotti, Vincenzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accretionary flux; Climate; Erosional flux; European Alps; Mediterranean salinity crisis; Miocene

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY FLUX; EROSIONAL FLUX; MEDITERRANEAN SALINITY CRISIS;

EROSION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXHUMATION; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33747368467     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22280.1     Document Type: Article

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