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Title: Evidence for long-term uplift on the Canary Islands from emergent Mio-Pliocene littoral deposits
Authors: Meco, Joaquín 
Scaillet, Stéphane
Guillou, Hervé
Lomoschitz, Alejandro 
Carracedo, Juan Carlos 
Ballester Santos, Javier
Betancort-Lozano, Juan Francisco
Cilleros, Antonio
UNESCO Clasification: 24 Ciencias de la vida
2416 Paleontología
Keywords: K-Ar Ages
Sea-Level Changes
Gran-Canaria
Oceanic-Island
Evolution, et al
Issue Date: 2007
Journal: Global and Planetary Change 
Abstract: Several islands in the Canarian archipelago show marine deposits with identical fossil faunas, which are generally assigned to different glacioeustatic marine episodes: mainly Pleistocene episodes in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and Mio-Pliocene ones in Gran Canaria. Three fossil species (Saccostrea chili, Nerita emiliana and Strombus coronatus) characterize all the marine deposits from southern Lanzarote, to the west and south of Fuerteventura and northeast of Gran Canaria. Three other species (Ancilla glandiformis, Rothpletzia rudista and Siderastraea miocenica) confirm the chronostratigraphic attribution of these deposits. Other more occasional fossils (as Chlamys latissima, Isognomon soldanii and Clypeaster aegyptiacus) fit an upper Miocene and lower Pliocene age.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/17956
ISSN: 0921-8181
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.11.040
Source: Global and Planetary Change [ISSN 0921-8181], v. 57 (3-4), p. 222-234, (Junio 2007)
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