Galeacysta etrusca complex: Dinoflagellate cyst marker of paratethyan influxes to the Mediterranean Sea before and after the Peak of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Palynology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-134

  Popescu, Speranta Maria ^a   Melinte Dobrinescu, Mihaela Carmen ^f   Dalesme, Florent ^b   Süto Szentai, Mária ^g   Jouannic, Gwénaël ^c   Bakrac, Koraljka ^h   Escarguel, Gilles ^d   Clauzon, Georges ⁱ   Head, Martin J ^e   Suc, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

^g Natural History Collection of Komlo   (Hungary)

^h CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

ⁱ CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

'Lago Mare'; Galeacysta etrusca complex; Messinian; Paratethys Mediterranean; Zanclean

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; CHRONOLOGY; CYST; DINOFLAGELLATE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESSINIAN; NANOPLANKTON; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SALINITY;

DACIC BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PANNONIAN BASIN; ROMANIA;

DINOPHYCEAE; PARATETHYS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 76449083987     PISSN: 01916122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gspalynol.33.2.105     Document Type: Article

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