[HTML][HTML] Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain: Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution

W Krijgsman, A Tesakov, T Yanina, S Lazarev… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pontocaspian (Black Sea-Caspian Sea) region has a very dynamic history of
basin development and biotic evolution. The region is the remnant of a once vast Paratethys …

Paratethys response to the Messinian salinity crisis

CGC van Baak, W Krijgsman, I Magyar, O Sztanó… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Black Sea and Caspian Sea are the present-day remnants of a much larger
epicontinental sea on the Eurasian continental interior, the Paratethys. During the late …

Middle Miocene paleoenvironmental crises in Central Eurasia caused by changes in marine gateway configuration

DV Palcu, LA Golovina, YV Vernyhorova… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Marine gateways prove to be important factors for changes in the ecology and biochemistry
of marginal seas. Changes in gateway configuration played a dominant role in the Middle …

The geochemical riddle of “low-salinity gypsum” deposits

G Aloisi, L Guibourdenche, M Natalicchio… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Gypsum makes up about one fifth of giant salt deposits formed by evaporation of seawater
throughout Earth's history. Although thermodynamic calculations and precipitation …

Flooding of the Caspian Sea at the intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciations

CGC Van Baak, A Grothe, K Richards, M Stoica… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The semi-isolated epicontinental Paratethys Sea in the Eurasian continental interior was
highly sensitive to changes in basin connectivity and hydrological budget. The Caspian Sea …

[HTML][HTML] From Khersonian drying to Pontian “flooding”: late Miocene stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Dacian Basin (Eastern Paratethys)

S Lazarev, A De Leeuw, M Stoica, O Mandic… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the late Miocene, a large inland sea known as the Eastern Paratethys stretched out across
the present-day Black Sea–Caspian Sea region. The basin was mostly endorheic and its …

Quantifying the Mediterranean freshwater budget throughout the late Miocene: New implications for sapropel formation and the Messinian Salinity Crisis

D Simon, A Marzocchi, R Flecker, DJ Lunt… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
The cyclic sedimentary record of the late Miocene Mediterranean shows a clear transition
from open marine to restricted conditions and finally to evaporitic environments associated …

The sensitivity of middle Miocene paleoenvironments to changing marine gateways in Central Europe

D Simon, D Palcu, P Meijer, W Krijgsman - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract During the middle Miocene (15–12 Ma), the paleoenvironmental conditions in the
Paratethys Sea of Central Europe changed from normal marine to hypersaline and from …

Messinian salinity crisis record under strong freshwater input in marginal, intermediate, and deep environments: The case of the North Aegean

V Karakitsios, JJ Cornée, T Tsourou, P Moissette… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present study, we investigate the Mediterranean–Paratethys connection during the
late Miocene in Strymon Basin (North Aegean, northeastern Mediterranean) and compare …