Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) Central Paratethys based on palaeontological and geochemical analyses of foraminifera, ostracods, gastropods and rodents

Geological Magazine

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 299-314

  Tóth, Emöke ^a   Görög, Ágnes ^b   Lcuyer, Christophe ^c   Moissette, Pierre ^c   Balter, Vincent ^c   Monostori, Mikls ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Geochemistry; Hungary; Middle Miocene; Ostracods

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIODIVERSITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; MOLLUSCS;

FORAMINIFERA; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUNGARY; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; MIDDLE MIOCENE; OSTRACODS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION;

SEA LEVEL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; FAUNA; FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIOCENE; OSTRACOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PARATETHYS; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION; RODENT; SALINITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

HUNGARY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ROMANIA;

FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; OSTRACODA; PARATETHYS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77953559367     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809990203     Document Type: Article

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