The Gibraltar corridor: Watergate of the Messinian salinity crisis

W Krijgsman, W Capella, D Simon, FJ Hilgen… - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused
much debate in the marine science community. Especially the suggestion that the …

The Desiccation and Catastrophic Refilling of the Mediterranean: 50 Years of Facts, Hypotheses, and Myths Around the Messinian Salinity Crisis

M Roveri, S Lugli, V Manzi - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Distinguishing between deep-water sediment facies: turbidites, contourites and hemipelagites

D Stow, Z Smillie - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The distinction between turbidites, contourites and hemipelagites in modern and ancient
deep-water systems has long been a matter of controversy. This is partly because the …

A new world-class deep-water play-type, deposited by the syndepositional interaction of turbidity flows and bottom currents: The giant Eocene Coral Field in northern …

M Fonnesu, D Palermo, M Galbiati… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
The discovery of the super-giant Coral and Mamba gas fields in the offshore of Northern
Mozambique provides a unique insight into the architecture of a new deep-water play-type …

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 characterization and its discrimination from other deep‐water deposits in the Gulf of Cadiz contourite depositional system

S De Castro, FJ Hernández‐Molina… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite numerous efforts to properly differentiate between contourites and other deep‐water
deposits in cores and outcrops, reliable diagnostic criteria are still lacking. The co …

Late Miocene contourite channel system reveals intermittent overflow behavior

W de Weger, FJ Hernández-Molina, R Flecker… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Paleoceanographic information from submarine overflows in the vicinity of oceanic
gateways is of major importance for resolving the role of ocean circulation in modulating …

Diagnostic criteria using microfacies for calcareous contourites, turbidites and pelagites in the Eocene–Miocene slope succession, southern Cyprus

H Hüneke, FJ Hernández‐Molina… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interbedded contourites, turbidites and pelagites are commonplace in many deep‐water
slope environments. However, the distinction between these different facies remains a …

Palaeogeographic evolution of the late Miocene Rifian Corridor (Morocco): reconstructions from surface and subsurface data

W Capella, N Barhoun, R Flecker, FJ Hilgen… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rifian Corridor was one of the Mediterranean–Atlantic seaways that
progressively restricted and caused the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). Many key …

Identification of soil particle size distribution in different sedimentary environments at river basin scale by fractal dimension

Y Wang, Y He, J Zhan, Z Li - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The geomorphology of river basin is complex, and its soil sedimentary characteristics are
poorly defined. To study the spatial variability of soil structure in different sedimentary …