The Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean basin: a reassessment of the data and an integrated scenario

JM Rouchy, A Caruso - Sedimentary Geology, 2006‏ - Elsevier
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 …

[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 …

Deposition and early alteration of evaporites

BC Schreiber, ME Tabakh - Sedimentology, 2000‏ - Wiley Online Library
The depositional settings for primary and early diagenetic evaporite deposits generally fall
into three categories: marginal (mixed shallow‐subaqueous and subaerial), shallow and …

Lithospheric-scale geodynamic context of the Messinian salinity crisis

L Jolivet, R Augier, C Robin, JP Suc, JM Rouchy - Sedimentary geology, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Comparison between the tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of the Mediterranean
region from the Oligocene to the Present shows that the isolation of the Mediterranean …

Crustal types and Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Alborán sea, western Mediterranean

G Booth‐Rea, CR Ranero… - Geochemistry …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Multichannel seismic reflection images across the transition between the east Alborán and
the Algero‐Balearic basins show how crustal thickness decreases from about 5 s two‐way …

Sedimentary facies, depositional environments and palaeogeographic evolution of the Neogene Denizli Basin, SW Anatolia, Turkey

H Alçiçek, B Varol, M Özkul - Sedimentary Geology, 2007‏ - Elsevier
The Denizli Basin (southwestern Anatolia, Turkey) contains a record of environmental
changes dating since the Early Miocene. Detailed facies analysis of the Neogene formations …

The 'Tortonian salinity crisis' of the eastern Betics (Spain)

W Krijgsman, M Garcés, J Agustı, I Raffi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2000‏ - Elsevier
The late Miocene depositional history of the Lorca and Fortuna basins, both occupying an
internal position in the eastern Betics of Spain, is marked by a regressive sequence from …

Paleoenvironmental changes at the Messinian–Pliocene boundary in the eastern Mediterranean (southern Cyprus basins): significance of the Messinian Lago-Mare

JM Rouchy, F Orszag-Sperber, MM Blanc-Valleron… - Sedimentary …, 2001‏ - Elsevier
The study of the late Messinian–Early Pliocene sediments in south Cyprus (Pissouri and
Polemi basins) and the comparison with the offshore coeval deposits drilled in the ODP Leg …

Sedimentary, stable isotope and micropaleontological records of paleoceanographic change in the Messinian Tripoli Formation (Sicily, Italy)

MM Blanc-Valleron, C Pierre, JP Caulet… - Palaeogeography …, 2002‏ - Elsevier
The Tripoli Formation (6.96–5.98 Ma) of the Central Sicilian Basin provides a good record of
the paleoceanographical changes that affected the Mediterranean during the transition from …

[PDF][PDF] The major-ion composition of Cenozoic seawater: The past 36 million years from fluid inclusions in marine halite

ST Brennan, TK Lowenstein, DI Cendon - American Journal of …, 2013‏ - ajsonline.org
Fluid inclusions from ten Cenozoic (Eocene-Miocene) marine halites are used to quantify
the major-ion composition (Mg^ 2+^, Ca^ 2+^, K^+^, Na^+^, SO~ 4~^ 2−^, and Cl^−^) of …