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 …

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 …

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 …

Messinian marine deposits of the Guadalhorce River valley in southern Spain record
evidence of the last northern gateway that existed between the Mediterranean and the …

This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

The Mediterranean Sea provides a major route for heat and freshwater loss from the North
Atlantic and thus is an important cause of the high density of Atlantic waters. In addition to …

The present study uses a multiproxy approach in order to further understand the evolution of
climate responses in the western Mediterranean as of the Last Glacial Maximum. Sediments …

The final stage of the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) was characterized by brackish-water
“Lago-mare” conditions in the intermediate and marginal basins of the Mediterranean Sea …

In order to reconstruct the environmental changes at the end of the Messinian salinity crisis,
a multidisciplinary study has been carried out with a high sampling resolution of the late …

The tectonically driven Cenozoic closure of the Tethys Ocean invoked a significant
reorganization of oceanic circulation and climate patterns on a global scale. This process …