[HTML][HTML] Freshening of the Mediterranean Salt Giant: controversies and certainties around the terminal (Upper Gypsum and Lago-Mare) phases of the Messinian …

F Andreetto, G Aloisi, F Raad, H Heida, R Flecker… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The late Miocene evolution of the Mediterranean Basin is characterized by major changes in
connectivity, climate and tectonic activity resulting in unprecedented environmental and …

[HTML][HTML] A gastropod-based biogeographic scheme for the European Neogene freshwater systems

TA Neubauer, M Harzhauser, A Kroh… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
For the first time a palaeobiogeographic framework is proposed for European Neogene
freshwater systems. The distribution of 2226 species-group taxa of freshwater gastropods …

Chronology with a pinch of salt: Integrated stratigraphy of Messinian evaporites in the deep Eastern Mediterranean reveals long-lasting halite deposition during …

A Meilijson, F Hilgen, J Sepúlveda, J Steinberg… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC; 5.97–5.33 Ma) is considered an extreme
environmental event driven by changes in climate and tectonics, which affected global …

Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Western Alboran Sea Basin in the last 25 Myrs

D Do Couto, C Gorini, L Jolivet, N Lebret, R Augier… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Western Alboran Basin (WAB) formation has always been the subject of debate
and considered either as a back-arc or a forearc basin. Stratigraphic analyses of high …

[HTML][HTML] 50th anniversary review of the Mediterranean desiccation hypothesis

WBF Ryan - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2023 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Zanclean megaflood of the Mediterranean–Searching for independent evidence

D Garcia-Castellanos, A Micallef, F Estrada… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea underwent a period of isolation from the
ocean and widespread salt deposition known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) …

[PDF][PDF] Living in a deep desiccated Mediterranean Sea: An overview of the Italian fossil record of the Messinian salinity crisis

G Carnevale, R Gennari, F Lozar, M Natalicchio… - Bollettino della Società …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
G. Carnevale, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via
Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Torino, Italy; giorgio. carnevale@ unito. it R. Gennari …

The evolution of the westernmost Mediterranean basins

LG de la Peña, CR Ranero, E Gràcia… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on more than 4,500 km of new and re-processed multichannel seismic lines, high-
resolution seafloor bathymetry, available well data, and basement dredge samples, we have …

New insights on the Sorbas Basin (SE Spain): the onshore reference of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

G Clauzon, JP Suc, D Do Couto, G Jouannic… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sorbas Basin is the land reference of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) that
affected the Mediterranean Sea in the latest Miocene. Its stratigraphy has been re-visited …

Seismic evidence of current-controlled sedimentation in the Alboran Sea during the Pliocene and Quaternary: Palaeoceanographic implications

C Juan, G Ercilla, FJ Hernández-Molina, F Estrada… - Marine Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
A seismic analysis of the Pliocene and Quaternary stratigraphy was conducted in the
Alboran Sea (westernmost Mediterranean) using more than 1250 profiles consisting of …