Messinian paleoenvironmental changes in the easternmost Mediterranean Basin: Adana Basin, southern Turkey

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 839-863

  Faranda, Costanza ^a   Gliozzi, Elsa ^a,b   Cipollari, Paola ^a,b   Grossi, Francesco ^a   Darbaş, Güldemin ^c   Gürbüz, Kemal ^d   Nazik, Atike ^d   Gennari, Rocco ^e   Cosentino, Domenico ^a,b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adana Basin; Eastern Mediterranean; Messinian; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Paleontology; Southern Turkey

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESSINIAN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OSTRACOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

ADANA BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

FORAMINIFERA; LOXOCONCHA; LOXOCORNICULINA DJAFAROVI; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84882958833     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/yer-1205-11     Document Type: Article

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