Calcium sulfate precipitation pathways in natural and engineered environments

AES Van Driessche, TM Stawski, M Kellermeier - Chemical Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
The solution-mediated formation of calcium sulfate minerals, ie gypsum, anhydrite and
bassanite, is a common process in both natural and engineered settings. It plays a key role …

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 …

Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

EJ Rohling, GL Foster, KM Grant, G Marino, AP Roberts… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global
climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over …

The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences

M Roveri, R Flecker, W Krijgsman, J Lofi, S Lugli… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis

D Garcia-Castellanos, F Estrada, I Jiménez-Munt… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea became disconnected from the world's oceans and mostly
desiccated by evaporation about 5.6 million years ago during the Messinian salinity crisis …

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 …

Messinian salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar arc

D Garcia-Castellanos, A Villaseñor - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The Messinian salinity crisis,(5.96 to 5.33 million years ago) was caused by
reduced water inflow from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea resulting in …

Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

TF Schildgen, D Cosentino, B Bookhagen… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Uplifted Neogene marine sediments and Quaternary fluvial terraces in the Mut Basin,
southern Turkey, reveal a detailed history of surface uplift along the southern margin of the …

A two‐step process for the reflooding of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis

F Bache, SM Popescu, M Rabineau, C Gorini, JP Suc… - Basin …, 2012 - earthdoc.org
The M essinian S alinity C risis is well known to have resulted from a significant drop of the
M editerranean sea level. Considering both onshore and offshore observations, the …

A single cause for uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateau?

J Bartol, R Govers - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Regional observations suggest that the Central Anatolian plateau (central Turkey) has risen
by> 1 km since the Tortonian (~ 8 Ma) while significant crustal shortening did not occur. This …