Evidence for long-term uplift on the Canary Islands from emergent Mio-Pliocene littoral deposits

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 222-234

  Meco, Joaquín ^a   Scaillet, Stéphane ^b   Guillou, Hervé ^b   Lomoschitz, Alejandro ^a   Carlos Carracedo, Juan ^c   Ballester, Javier ^a   Betancort, Juan Francisco ^a   Cilleros, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary Islands; marine deposits; Miocene; Pliocene; uplift

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRUST; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIOEUSTACY; HOT SPOT; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FUERTEVENTURA; GRAN CANARIA; LANZAROTE; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANCILLA; ANTHOZOA; CHLAMYS; CLYPEASTER; ISOGNOMON; NERITA; SACCOSTREA; STROMBUS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 34248548794     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.11.040     Document Type: Article

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