Salt giants are massive salt deposits (hundreds of metres thick) that form during the
evaporation of semi-enclosed seas. The drivers of salt giant formation and their feedbacks …

The late Miocene evolution of the Mediterranean Basin is characterized by major changes in
connectivity, climate and tectonic activity resulting in unprecedented environmental and …

Abstract The Tethys Ocean was compartmentalized into the Mediterranean Sea and Indian
Ocean during the early Miocene, yet the exact nature and timing of this disconnection are …

Massive salt accumulations, or salt giants, have formed in highly restricted marine basins
throughout geological history, but their impact on biodiversity has been only patchily studied …

According to some authors, the Messinian salinity crisis was ended by a giant waterfall or
megaflood 5.33 million years ago, when the Atlantic Ocean reconnected in a catastrophic …

Evaporite giants can precipitate out of high salinity waters in semi-enclosed ocean basins
when the rate of evaporation outstrips the inflow of new saline and fresh waters. The thick …

Deep and long-lived rifted basins host valuable information about tectonic evolution and
environmental changes occurring in their surroundings throughout hundreds of millions of …

Deep-sea anoxic brine pools are unique and extreme, yet habitable environments.
However, their extent and processes of formation are not fully understood. Using …

Hydrological 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). It is still …

The first deep-sea drilling expedition in the Mediterranean chanced upon unanticipated
discoveries when recovering deeply buried sediments of Late Miocene age that had once …