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The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the West-mediterranean Sea - Some Previous Results about the Messinian Events

Proceedings, 2015
A large seismic dataset has allowed us to regionally study the West Mediterranean Sea with particular focus on the West Sardinia and South Balearic continental margins and adjacent oceanic basins. The main seismic and geological evidences are related to the presence of the Messinian Trilogy in the deep basins and lower slopes, and coeval erosional ...
DAL CIN, MICHELA, Accaino, F., CAMERLENGHI, ANGELO, DEL BEN, Anna, Geletti, R., MOCNIK, ARIANNA, Wardell, N., Zgur, F.   +7 more
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Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis

Nature, 2003
The Messinian salinity crisis--the desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea between 5.96 and 5.33 million years (Myr) ago--was one of the most dramatic events on Earth during the Cenozoic era. It resulted from the closure of marine gateways between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the causes of which remain enigmatic.
Svend, Duggen, Kaj, Hoernle, Paul, van den Bogaard, Lars, Rüpke, Jason Phipps, Morgan   +4 more
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Messinian evaporites and fluid flow

Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015
Abstract Thick evaporite sequences deposited in saline giant basins are traditionally viewed as impermeable barriers to fluid flow. This paradigm has recently been challenged by documented evidence of fluid migration pathways through several-km thick series of evaporites, such as the late Miocene (Messinian) sediments in the Mediterranean basin ...
Claudia Bertoni, Joe Cartwright
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Messinian evaporites in Zakynthos, Greece

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 1997
Abstract Messinian gypsum deposits of central Zakynthos consist of 10–15 m of gypsum turbidites intercalated in a terrigenous turbidite succession. Most of the turbidites are fine grained and thin bedded, perhaps transported by dense briny underflows, but one widespread 2–3 m thick bed of coarse gypsum crystals may have resulted from erosion in ...
N. Kontopoulos, A. Zelilidis, D.J.W. Piper, P.J. Mudie   +3 more
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Messinian fossil fish of the Mediterranean

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 1979
Abstract Analysis of the ecological characteristics of the Messinian, Lower Pliocene and present-day ichthyofauna of the Mediterranean basin reveals various data which are consistent with the hypothesis of the desiccation of the Mediterranean. In the numerous fish-bed localities of the Lower and Middle Messinian, where the sequence is complete, the ...
L. Sorbini, R. Tirapelle Rancan
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Is there a Messinian unconformity in the Central Paratethys?

Stratigraphy, 2008
Since the conception of the Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis model in the 1970s, regional unconformities as candidates for indicators of a correlative base level drop have been sought in the neighbouring Paratethyan basins. Some authors have suggested that seismic sections and borehole profiles from the Late Miocene to Pliocene lacustrine to ...
Imre Magyar, Orsolya Sztano
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Messinian event in the black sea

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 1979
Abstract Three holes were drilled during the 1975 DSDP Leg 42B drilling the Black Sea. A section from Hole 380, at 2107 m water depth on the western edge of the abyssal plain, is 1074 m thick, and provides the most complete stratigraphic section. Dating of the sediments is based upon (1) fossil evidence from pollen, crustaceans, benthic foraminifera,
Kenneth J. Hsü, Federico Giovanoli
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Messinian deposits and erosion in northern Tunisia: inferences on Strait of Sicily during the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Terra Nova, 2009
AbstractOutcrops, offshore wells, electric logs and seismic profiles from northern Tunisia provide an opportunity to decipher the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Strait of Sicily. Messinian deposits (including gypsum beds) near the Tellian Range reveal two successive subaerial erosional surfaces overlain by breccias and marine Zanclean clays ...
El Euch-El Koundi, Narjess, Ferry, Serge, Suc, Jean-Pierre, Clauzon, Georges, Melinte-Dobrinescu, Mihaela Carmen, Gorini, Christian, Safra, Anissa, Zargouni, Fouad   +7 more
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Correlation of messinian carbonate platforms

Géologie Méditerranéenne, 1994
Esteban M., Clauzon Georges, Cornée Jean-Jacques, Cunningham K., Ferrandini Jean, Franseen E., Görür Naci, Guieu Gérard, Grasso M., Hôffling R., Meyers N., Muller J., Pedley Martyn, Plaziat J.-Cl., Suballyuva A., Suc Jean-Pierre, Valleri G., Van buchem Frans S. P. Correlation of messinian carbonate platforms. In: Géologie Méditerranéenne.
Esteban, M., Clauzon, Georges, Cornée, Jean-Jacques, Cunningham, K., Ferrandini, Jean, Franseen, E., Görür, Naci, Guieu, Gérard, Grasso, M., Hôffling, R., Meyers, N., Muller, J., Pedley, Martyn, Plaziat, Jean-Claude, Suballyuva, A., Suc, Jean-Pierre, Valleri, Gigliola, Duport, Jean-Pierre   +17 more
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A Messinian Model for Port Miou

2020
A Messinian model was proposed to explain the behaviour of Port Miou spring. During the Mediterranean salinity crisis, the deep drop of the sea level provoked the lowering and the hydraulic connection of different karst units of Basse Provence. The karst drainage could then converge to a deep gallery and a paleo-spring located 300 m below the present ...
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