After a long period of controversial debate about the interpretation of the Messinian salinity
crisis (MSC), a near consensus existed since the ODP Leg 42A for a model kee** the …

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 …

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 …

Page 1 John K. Warren EVAPORITES SEDIMENTS, RESOURCES AND HYDROCARBONS
Springer Page 2 John K. Warren Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons Page 3 …

To get a better understanding of controls on reef development through time, we created a
comprehensive database on Phanerozoic reefs. The database currently comprises 2470 …

Tethyan carbonate platforms are relatively short-lived depositional systems that were born,
developed, died, and were resurrected in a tectonically active area. In fact, they experienced …

This historical narrative traces the steps to unravel, over a span of 40 years, an extraordinary
event in which 5% of the dissolved salt of the oceans of the world was extracted in a fraction …

The Sorbas basin of SE Spain contains one of the most complete sedimentary successions
of the Mediterranean reflecting the increasing salinity during the Messinian salinity crisis. A …

ABSTRACT The upper Miocene Reef Complex of Mallorca is a 20‐km prograding unit which
crops out in sea cliffs along the southern side of the island. These vertical and exceptionally …

Atlantic psychrospheric and temperate mesopelagic faunas found in the lower Messinian
marls in Morocco indicate that a strong, eastward flowing, bottom current was present in the …