Architecture and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Coralline Limestone formation, Malta—Implications for Eastern Mediterranean restriction prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis [PDF]
The Depositional Record, 2021 The Eastern and Western Mediterranean are separated by an elevated plateau that regulates water exchange between these two basins. The Maltese archipelago, situated atop this topographic high, offers a unique window into the evolution of this plateau in ...
Or M. Bialik +2 more
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Miocene sponge assemblages in the face of the Messinian Salinity Crisis—new data from the Atlanto-Mediterranean seaway [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 The Messinian Salinity Crisis is considered as one of the most influential Cenozoic events that impacted negatively on the benthic fauna of the Mediterranean area.
Magdalena Łukowiak +4 more
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Vegetation climate and marine environmental reconstruction in the western Mediterranean (southern Rifian corridor, Morocco) over the Tortonian-Messinian transition [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 The Southern Rifian Corridor was a gateway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean in the Late Miocene. Its rapid narrowing at the Tortonian - Messinian transition around 7.2 Ma, resulting from very intense tectonic activity, has triggered
Soukaina Targhi +5 more
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Tracking lithospheric delamination and surface processes across the Messinian salinity crisis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsLithospheric delamination involves short-lived crustal and surface responses, alkaline magmatism, high heat flow and extension. In the Western Mediterranean, delamination is hypothesized to have triggered uplift at the origin of the Messinian Salinity ...
Frédéric Mouthereau +7 more
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Seagrass radiation after Messinian salinity crisis reflected by strong genetic structuring and out-of-Africa scenario (Ruppiaceae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Many aquatic plant and seagrass species are widespread and the origin of their continent-wide ranges might result from high gene flow levels. The response of species when extending northwards since the Last Glacial Maximum can be opposed to the ...
Ludwig Triest, Tim Sierens
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The Pliocene Mediterranean infilling of the Messinian Erosional Surface: New biostratigraphic data based on calcareous nannofossils (Bajo Segura Basin, SE Spain) [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2015 The Bajo Segura Basin (eastern Betic Cordillera) is a Mediterranean marginal basin where the Messinian Erosional Surface (MES), formed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis sea-level fall, is well developed.
C. LANCIS +3 more
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Chlorine isotopes constrain a major drawdown of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsHydrological restriction from the Atlantic Ocean transformed the Mediterranean Sea into a giant saline basin during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (5.97–5.33 million years ago).
G. Aloisi +8 more
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Ultrapotassic volcanic centres as potential paleogeographic indicators: The Mediterranean Tortonian ‘salinity crisis’, southern Spain [PDF]
Geologica Acta, 2013 Dated peperites associated with ultrapotassic volcanic centres of the Neogene Volcanic Province of southeast Spain are of particular interest within the complex tectonomagmatic context of the Western Mediterranean because they show clear volcano ...
A. CAMBESES, J.H. SCARROW
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Phylogenetic analysis suggests early divergence followed by convergent morphological evolution in the Silene sections Odontopetalae and Sordidae (Caryophyllaceae) [PDF]
PhytoKeysThe genus Silene presents significant taxonomic challenges, particularly for groups such as S. sect. Odontopetalae and the monotypic S. sect. Sordidae. This study investigates the evolutionary relationship between the narrowly endemic Silene sordida and ...
Zeynep Toprak
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Lago Mare and the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Evidence from the Alboran Sea (S. Spain)
Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2014 International audienceThis paper provides a new environmental, sedimentological and stratigraphic context of the Lago Mare deposits from the North Alboran region and clarifies their chronologic location with respect to the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Damien do Couto +2 more
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