Journal article
Calibrating the duration and timing of the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean: linked tectonoclimatic signals in thrust-top basins of Sicily
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The Messinian ‘salinity crisis’ which affected the Mediterranean represents one of the most dramatic examples of base-level fluctuation known in the geological record: an amplitude of perhaps 2 km within a stage with a duration of less than 2 Ma. Deposits within the Caltanissetta Basin of central Sicily are used to calibrate the duration and timing of these fluctuations. Two successions of evaporites termed 'First Cycle' and ‘Second Cycle’, are separated by an inter-regional unconformity. The...
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Butler, R.W.H.
McClelland, E.
Jones, R.E.
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Geological Society Publishing House on behalf of the Geological Society of London
- Journal:
- Journal of the Geological Society
- Issue:
- 156
- Publication date:
- 1999-01-01
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- Local pid:
- ora:737
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http://sers009b.sers.ox.ac.uk/archive/00000779/
- Deposit date:
- 2012-11-15
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- Copyright date:
- 1999
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