Palaeoenvironments of the Mediterranean Basin at the Messinian hypersaline/hyposaline transition: Evidence from natural radioactivity and microfacies of post-evaporitic successions of the Adriatic sub-basin

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-250

  Sampalmieri, Gianluca ^a   Iadanza, Annalisa ^a   Cipollari, Paola ^a,b   Cosentino, Domenico ^a,b   Lo Mastro, Sergio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; MARL; MESSINIAN; MICROFACIES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOACTIVITY;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77955151665     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00939.x     Document Type: Article

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