Messinian palaeoenvironments and hydrology in Sicily (Italy): The dinoflagellate cyst record

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 233-250

  Londeix, Laurent ^a   Benzakour, Mohamed ^b   Suc, Jean Pierre ^c   Turon, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate cysts; Early Zanclean; Late Tortonian; Messinian; Palaeoenvironment; Palaeohydrology; Sea surface Temperature Reconstruction; Sicily

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MESSINIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TORTONIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; ZANCLEA;

EID: 34249824278     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2006.12.001     Document Type: Article

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