FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI La méditerranée occidentale depuis l'oligocène, schéma d'évolution OT The western mediterranean since the oligocene, pattern evolution BT AF LE PICHON, Xavier PAUTOT, Guy AUZENDE, Jean-Marie OLIVET, Jean-Louis AS 1:;2:;3:;4:; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:; TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1971/publication-4921.pdf LA French DT Article DE ;Histoire Ifremer AB The evolution of the Western Mediterranean basin during Tertiary time is discussed. It is proposed that it was created by a continental drift process during Middle Oligocene time, synchronously with the creation of the grabens over the continents. The significance of the Messinian evaporitic sedimentary episode is discussed in liaison with the problem of large scale subsidence which has been at least six kilometers since Oligocene time. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR] PY 1971 PD AUG SO Marine Geophysical Researches PU North-Holland Publishing Company VL 13 BP 145 EP 152 ID 4921 ER EF