Did the Ebro basin connect to the Mediterranean before the Messinian salinity crisis?

Geomorphology

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 155-165

  Babault, Julien ^a   Loget, Nicolas ^b   Van Den Driessche, Jean ^a   Castelltort, Sébastien ^c   Bonnet, Stéphane ^a   Davy, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Ebro basin opening; Messinian salinity crisis; Sea level fall; Surface process model

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MESSINIAN; NEOGENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLIOCENE; SALINITY;

EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33749659955     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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