The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences

Marine Geology - Tập 352 - Trang 25-58 - 2014
Marco Roveri1,2, Rachel Flecker3, Wout Krijgsman4, Johanna Lofi5, Stefano Lugli6, Vinicio Manzi1,2, Francisco Javier Sierro7, Adèle Bertini8, Angelo Camerlenghi9, Gert J. de Lange10, Rob Govers10, F.J. Hilgen10, Christian Hübscher11, Paul Meijer10, Marius Stoica12
1Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism (ALP), Via Madonna dei Boschi 76, Peveragno, 12016, CN, Italy
2Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 157/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
3School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
4Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
5Géosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier 2, cc 60 Bât. 22, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France
6Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Piazza S. Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy
7Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
8Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121 Florence, Italy
9OGS Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/C, 34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy
10Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, Utrecht, 3584 CD, The Netherlands
11Institute for Geophysics, Center for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
12Department of Geology, Bucharest University, Balcescu Bd. 1, 010041 Bucharest, Romania

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