Tethyan changes shaped aquatic diversification

Z Hou, S Li - Biological reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Tethys Ocean existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia
from the Triassic to the Pliocene. Analyses of multiple biogeographic and phylogenetic …

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 …

Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

R Flecker, W Krijgsman, W Capella… - 2015 - Elsevier
Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients
between oceans and seas. As a result, changes in gateway geometry can significantly alter …

Pyrite sulfur isotopes reveal glacial− interglacial environmental changes

V Pasquier, P Sansjofre, M Rabineau… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The sulfur biogeochemical cycle plays a key role in regulating Earth's surface redox through
diverse abiotic and biological reactions that have distinctive stable isotopic fractionations. As …

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 …

Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago

KM Grant, U Amarathunga, JD Amies, P Hu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Dark organic-rich layers (sapropels) have accumulated in Mediterranean sediments since
the Miocene due to deep-sea dysoxia and enhanced carbon burial at times of intensified …

Deciphering bottom current velocity and paleoclimate signals from contourite deposits in the G ulf of C ádiz during the last 140 kyr: An inorganic geochemical …

A Bahr, FJ Jiménez‐Espejo, N Kolasinac… - Geochemistry …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Contourites in the Gulf of Cádiz (GC) preserve a unique archive of Mediterranean Outflow
Water (MOW) variability over the past 5.3 Ma. In our study, we investigate the potential of …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the gulf of Cadiz margin and southwest Portugal contourite depositional system: Tectonic, sedimentary and paleoceanographic implications from …

FJ Hernández-Molina, FJ Sierro, E Llave, C Roque… - Marine Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
The contourite depositional system (CDS) along the southwestern Iberian Margin (SIM),
within the Gulf of Cadiz and offshore areas of western Portugal bear the unmistakable signal …

The Mediterranean Overflow in the Gulf of Cadiz: A rugged journey

RF Sánchez-Leal, MJ Bellanco… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The pathways and transformations of dense water overflows, which depend on small-scale
interactions between flow dynamics and erosional-depositional processes, are a central …

Secondary flow in contour currents controls the formation of moat-drift contourite systems

H Wilckens, JT Eggenhuisen, PH Adema… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean currents control seafloor morphology and the transport of sediments, organic carbon,
nutrients, and pollutants in deep-water environments. A better connection between …