Freshwater fish δ18O indicates a Messinian change of the precipitation regime in Central Africa

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 435-438

  Otero, Olga ^a   Lécuyer, Christophe ^b   Fourel, François ^b   Martineau, François ^b   Mackaye, Hassane Taïsso ^c   Vignaud, Patrick ^a   Brunet, Michel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE N'DJAMENA   (Chad)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AFRICA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH HABITAT; FRESHWATER FISHES; LATE MIOCENE; LATE NEOGENE; MESSINIAN; NEO GENES; OPEN WATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLIOCENE; TIME-PERIODS; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS; WATER CYCLE; WATERBODIES;

ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; TOOTH ENAMEL;

FISH;

APATITE; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MESSINIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHATE; PLIOCENE; TREND ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; CHAD BASIN; DJURAB;

HYDROCYNUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79954576646     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31212.1     Document Type: Article

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