Interpreting gypsarenites in the Rossano basin (Calabria, Italy): A contribution to the characterization of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 420, Issue , 2007, Pages 135-148

  Barone, Mirko ^a   Dominici, Rocco ^a   Lugli, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detrital mode; Gypsarenites; Messinian salinity crisis; Provenance; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

SANDSTONE;

DETRITAL MODES; GYPSARENITES; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; PROVENANCE; SOUTHERN ITALY;

GYPSUM;

ANHYDRITE; BASIN; CEMENT; EVAPORITE; EXHUMATION; GYPSUM; MESSINIAN; SALINITY;

CALABRIA; COSENZA; ITALY; ROSSANO BASIN;

EID: 75749135346     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2420(09)     Document Type: Article

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