Modelling depositional shifts between sedimentary basins: Sediment pathways in Paratethys basins during the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 536-537, Issue , 2012, Pages 110-121

  Bartol, J ^a   Matenco, L ^a   Garcia Castellanos, D ^a,b   Leever, K ^a,c  

^a Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basin evolution; Black Sea; Dacic basin; Eastern Paratethys; Messinian salinity crisis; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BLACK SEA; DACIC BASIN; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; PARATETHYS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

DROPS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEPARATION; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESSINIAN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARATETHYS; REGRESSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BLACK SEA; DACIC BASIN; ROMANIA;

PARATETHYS;

EID: 84860167027     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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