The onset of the Messinian salinity crisis: Insights from Cyprus sections

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 217, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 52-64

  Orszag Sperber, Fabienne ^a   Caruso, Antonio ^b,c   Blanc Valleron, Marie Madeleine ^c   Merle, Didier ^c   Rouchy, Jean Marie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Evaporites onset; Mediterranean; Messinian

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EVAPORITE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYPRUS; EURASIA; LIMASSOL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; PAPHOS; PISSOURI BASIN; POLEMI BASIN;

EID: 67349288491     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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