The Messinian-early Pliocene stratigraphic record in the southern Bajo Segura Basin (Betic Cordillera, Spain): Implications for the Mediterranean salinity crisis

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 267-288

  Soria, Jesús M ^a   Caracuel, Jesús E ^a   Corbí, Hugo ^a   Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^b   Lancis, Carlos ^a   Tent Manclús, José E ^a   Viseras, César ^c   Yébenes, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Magnetobiostratigraphy; Mediterranean region; Messinian; Pliocene; Salinity crisis; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; EROSION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; NANOPLANKTON; PLIOCENE; PROGRADATION; SALINITY; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SEGURA BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 39549098672     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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