Geodynamic responses to a two-step model of the Messinian salinity crisis

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-78

  Ryan, William B F ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexure; Halite; Mediterranean; Messinian; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

BRINE; EVAPORITE; GEODYNAMICS; HALITE; MESSINIAN; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SALINITY; SUBSIDENCE; SULFATE; UPLIFT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 79955819608     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.182.2.73     Document Type: Article

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