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Les assemblages de diatomées des niveaux infra-gypseux du Messinien de Méditerranée (Espagne, Sicile, Chypre)

  • 1. Université de Bucarest, Faculté de Géologie et Géophysique, 1 bd N. Balcescu, Bucarest (Roumanie) simsaintmartin@yahoo.fr
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, FR 2400, Laboratoire de Géologie, 43 rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)

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Pestrea, Simona, Blanc-Valleron, Marie-Madeleine, Rouchy, Jean-Marie (2002): Les assemblages de diatomées des niveaux infra-gypseux du Messinien de Méditerranée (Espagne, Sicile, Chypre). Geodiversitas 24 (3): 543-583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5376956

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