Messinian deposits and erosion in northern Tunisia: Inferences on Strait of Sicily during the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-48

  El Euch el Koundi, Narjess ^a   Ferry, Serge ^b   Suc, Jean Pierre ^b   Clauzon, Georges ^c   Melinte Dobrinescu, Mihaela Carmen ^d   Gorini, Christian ^e   Safra, Anissa ^a   Zargouni, Fouad ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

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

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; DEPOSITION; EVAPORITE; MESSINIAN; OUTCROP;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; STRAIT OF SICILY; TUNISIA;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 63149144508     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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