Deformed Messinian markers in the Cyprus Arc: Tectonic and/or Messinian Salinity Crisis indicators?

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 146-170

  Maillard, Agnès ^a   Hübscher, Christian ^b   Benkhelil, Jean ^c   Tahchi, Elias ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c IMAGES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EVAPORITE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MESSINIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 79952082637     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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