Refining the Mediterranean "Messinian gap" with high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology, central and northern Italy

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-326

  Cosentino, Domenico ^a,b   Buchwaldt, Robert ^c   Sampalmieri, Gianluca ^a   Iadanza, Annalisa ^a   Cipollari, Paola ^a,b   Schildgen, Taylor F ^d   Hinnov, Linda A ^e   Ramezani, Jahandar ^c   Bowring, Samuel A ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASH LAYER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYCLICITY; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; EVAPORITES; HIGH-PRECISION; IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MESSINIAN; MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS; NORTHERN ITALY; SEDIMENTARY CYCLES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME FRAME; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIES; VOLCANIC ASH;

DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; LEAD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INSOLATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MESSINIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ASH; ZIRCON;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84874733347     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33820.1     Document Type: Article

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