1996 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Reconstruction of Tethyan Salinity Through the Extrapolation of Present-Day Physicochemical Data
Author : Alain Levy
Published in: The Tethys Ocean
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The paleosalinities of Tethys over time have been reconstructed through the use of environmental data enabling their evolution to be retraced from the Murgabian to the Tortonian. This reconstruction required the use of numerous parameters of various environments: marine, continental, and margino-littoral (transitional). It has been conducted by the extrapolation of present data on the physicochemistry of waters, sedimentology and the nature of the environment to ancient stages. The paleosalinities have been corrected for each period according to repositioning of latitudes and post-Triassic variations of climate.