Age refinement of the Messinian salinity crisis onset in the Mediterranean

Terra Nova

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 315-322

  Manzi, Vinicio ^a,b   Gennari, Rocco ^a,b   Hilgen, Frits ^c   Krijgsman, Wout ^c   Lugli, Stefano ^d   Roveri, Marco ^a,b   Sierro, Francisco J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ALP Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism   (Italy)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ECCENTRICITY; GYPSUM; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; PALEOMAGNETISM; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AFRICA; ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SORBAS BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84880157887     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12038     Document Type: Article

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