The Bajo Segura basin (SE Spain): Implications for the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean margins

Stratigraphy

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 257-263

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; UNCONFORMITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEGURA BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 58249083366     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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