Regional isostatic response to Messinian Salinity Crisis events

Tectonophysics

Volumn 463, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 109-129

  Govers, Rob ^a   Meijer, Paul ^a   Krijgsman, Wout ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D Flexure Shareware; Mediterranean tectonics; Messinian erosion surface; MSC; Paleogeographic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; EVAPORITE; ISOSTASY; MESSINIAN; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE FAULT; SALINITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT; WATER LEVEL;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 57449095636     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.026     Document Type: Article

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