[HTML][HTML] Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations

M Rebesco, FJ Hernández-Molina, D Van Rooij… - Marine Geology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The contourite paradigm was conceived a few decades ago, yet there remains a need to
establish a sound connection between contourite deposits, basin evolution and …

Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

EJ Rohling, G Marino, KM Grant - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

The Messinian Salinity Crisis: past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences

M Roveri, R Flecker, W Krijgsman, J Lofi, S Lugli… - Marine Geology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Forty years after the image of the Mediterranean transformed into a giant salty lake was first
conceived, the fascinating history of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) still arouses great …

[ספר][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

R Flecker, W Krijgsman, W Capella… - 2015‏ - Elsevier
Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients
between oceans and seas. As a result, changes in gateway geometry can significantly alter …

The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes

KM Grant, R Grimm, U Mikolajewicz, G Marino… - Quaternary Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon
variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the …

Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic

FJ Hernández-Molina, DAV Stow, CA Alvarez-Zarikian… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
Sediments cored along the southwestern Iberian margin during Integrated Ocean Drilling
Program Expedition 339 provide constraints on Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) …

Contourites and bottom current reworked sands: Bed facies model and implications

S De Castro, FJ Hernández-Molina… - Marine Geology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The differentiation of pure turbidites and contourites from mixed deposits—as the bottom
current reworked sands (BCRS)—in sedimentary cores and outcrops from the modern or …

Contourite processes associated with the Mediterranean Outflow Water after its exit from the Strait of Gibraltar: Global and conceptual implications

FJ Hernández-Molina, E Llave, B Preu… - …, 2014‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We characterize the eastern Gulf of Cadiz, proximal to the Strait of Gibraltar, using a
multidisciplinary approach that combines oceanographic, morphosedimentary, and …

Deciphering bottom current velocity and paleoclimate signals from contourite deposits in the G ulf of C ádiz during the last 140 kyr: An inorganic geochemical …

A Bahr, FJ Jiménez‐Espejo, N Kolasinac… - Geochemistry …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Contourites in the Gulf of Cádiz (GC) preserve a unique archive of Mediterranean Outflow
Water (MOW) variability over the past 5.3 Ma. In our study, we investigate the potential of …