The end of the Messinian salinity crisis: Evidences from the Chelif Basin (Algeria)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 386-417

  Rouchy, Jean Marie ^a   Caruso, Antonio ^a,b   Pierre, Catherine ^a   Blanc Valleron, Marie Madeleine ^a   Bassetti, Maria Angela ^c,d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Algeria; Chelif basin; Foraminifera; Lago Mare; Mediterranean basin; Messinian; Ostracods; Sedimentology; Stable Isotopes; Zanclean

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CLASTIC ROCK; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EROSION; FORAMINIFERA; MARGINAL BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MESSINIAN; MICROFOSSIL; MIOCENE; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSALINITY; PLIOCENE;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; CHELIF BASIN; NORTH AFRICA;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 34648829228     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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