Controls on Messinian Lower Evaporite cycles in the Mediterranean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 165-171

  Rohling, E J ^a   Schiebel, R ^a   Siddall, M ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lower Evaporites; Mediterranean; Messinian; modelling

Indexed keywords

LOWER EVAPORITES; MEDITERRANEAN; MESSINIAN; MODELLING;

FERTILIZERS; GYPSUM;

LEVEL CONTROL;

DEPOSITION; EVAPORITE; GYPSUM; MARL; MESSINIAN; OCEAN BASIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 53249134370     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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