Impact of pulsed Atlantic water inflow into the Alboran Basin at the time of the Zanclean flooding

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 361-376

  Estrada, Ferran ^a   Ercilla, Gemma ^a   Gorini, Christian ^b   Alonso, Belén ^a   Vázquez, Juan Tomás ^c   García Castellanos, Daniel ^d   Juan, Carmen ^a   Maldonado, Andrés ^e   Ammar, Abdellah ^f   Elabbassi, Mohammed ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC WATER; INFILLING; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MESSINIAN; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; PROMINENT FEATURES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

BATHYMETRY; MAPS; MOORING;

LANDFORMS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; FLOODING; INFILL; INFLOW; MESSINIAN; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE TERRACE; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; WATER FLOW;

ALBORAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 82655173957     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0249-8     Document Type: Article

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