Did the Mediterranean marine reflooding precede the Mio-Pliocene boundary? Paleontological and geochemical evidence from upper Messinian sequences of Tuscany, Italy

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 81-105

  Carnevale, Giorgio ^a   Longinelli, Antonio ^b   Caputo, Doriano ^c   Barbieri, Mario ^d   Landini, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

'Lago mare'; Fossil fishes; Italy; Messinian; O, C and Sr isotopes; Paleoenvironment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH; FLOODING; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; MOLLUSC; NEOGENE; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLIOCENE; SALINITY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

MOLLUSCA; OSTRACODA; PARLATORIA ZIZIPHI; PISCES;

EID: 37049027669     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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