Marine reflooding of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis predates the Zanclean GSSP. Reply to the "Comment on 'Earliest Zanclean age for the Colombacci and uppermost Di Tetto formations of the "latest Messinian" northern Apennines: New palaeoenvironmental data from the Maccarone section (Marche Province, Italy)' by Popescu et al. (2007) Geobios 40 (359-373)'...

Geobios

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 657-660

  Popescu, Speranta Maria ^a   Melinte, Mihaela Carmen ^b   Suc, Jean Pierre ^a   Clauzon, Georges ^c   Quillévéré, Frédéric ^a   Süto Szentai, Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d Natural History Collection of Komlo   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ceratolithus acutus; Pre Zanclean transgression; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLOODING; MESSINIAN; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TRANSGRESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CERATOLITHUS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 53349166312     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2008.05.001     Document Type: Note

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