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

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 …

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 …

ABSTRACT The Mediterranean Sea is a biodiversity hotspot containing between 15,000
and 20,000 marine species, nearly a quarter of which are endemic. The causes of the high …

Fifty-four Italian pollen sites, spanning the last 5.3 Ma, have been the object of an updated
synthesis. The chronostratigraphic framework of floral and vegetational events illustrates the …

Abstract New 87 Sr/86 Sr data from DSDP–ODP Messinian cores from deep Mediterranean
basins suggest that the usually envisaged correlation of offshore Upper Evaporites with …

The Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) is an extreme event in Earth history during which a salt
giant (> 1× 10 6 km 3) accumulated on the Mediterranean seafloor within∼ 640 ky Erosional …

Abstract The Crotone Basin is a Neogene-Quaternary depocenter developed along the
Ionian margin of Calabria, southern Italy. The basin opening was concomitant with the onset …

A gigantic cascade of Atlantic waters, filling the deep desiccated Mediterranean basin at the
beginning of the Pliocene, has commonly been envisaged to end the Messinian Salinity …

Abstract The late Miocene Messinian salinity crisis (MSC; 5.97–5.33 Ma) transformed the
Mediterranean basin into the youngest salt giant in Earth history. The paleoenvironment and …