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01 Oct 2007
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Calcareous dinoflagellate turnover in relation to the Messinian salinity crisis in the eastern Mediterranean Pissouri Basin, Cyprus
Katarzyna-Maria Bison
Division of Palaeontology, University of Bremen, FB 5, Geowissenschaften, Postfach 330440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany (e-mail: )
Gerard J. M. Versteegh
Institut für Biogeochemie und Meereschemie, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstraβe 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Frits J. Hilgen
University of Utrecht, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Budapestlaan 4, 3594 Utrecht, Netherlands
Helmut Willems
Division of Palaeontology, University of Bremen, FB 5, Geowissenschaften, Postfach 330440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany (e-mail: )
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