Orbitally forced paleoenvironmental and paleoclimate changes in the late postevaporitic Messinian of the central Mediterranean Basin

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 499-516

  Cosentino, Domenico ^a,b   Bertini, Adele ^c   Cipollari, Paola ^a,b   Florindo, Fabio ^d   Gliozzi, Elsa ^a,b   Grossi, Francesco ^a   Mastro, Sergio Lo ^a   Sprovieri, Mario ^e  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC REGION; BIOFACIES; CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MARINE INCURSION; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MESSINIAN; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PALYNOMORPHS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ANIMALS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MESSINIAN; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ABRUZZI; ADRIATIC SEA; CHIETI; ITALY; MAIELLA MOUNTAINS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

LOXOCORNICULINA DJAFAROVI; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84863521503     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30462.1     Document Type: Article

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