Recent advancements in the Messinian stratigraphy of Italy and their Mediterranean-scale implications

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-85

  Roveri, Marco ^a   Manzi, Vinicio ^a   Gennari, Rocco ^a   Iaccarino, Silvia Maria ^a   Lugli, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apennines; Evaporites; Integrated stratigraphy; Italy; Messinian salinity crisis; Sicily

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DILUTION; EVAPORITE; FACIES; GEODYNAMICS; GYPSUM; HYDROLOGY; MESSINIAN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SELENITE; SURFACE WATER; TECTONICS;

APENNINES; CALABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PARLATORIA ZIZIPHI;

EID: 52249113501     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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