Effects of large sea-level variations in connected basins: The Dacian-Black Sea system of the Eastern Paratethys

Basin Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 583-597

  Munteanu, I ^a,b   Matenco, L ^a   Dinu, C ^b   Cloetingh, S ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MARGINAL BASIN; MESSINIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PARATETHYS; PLIOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

BLACK SEA;

PARATETHYS;

EID: 84865740774     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2012.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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