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 …

Abstract During the Mesozoic the Egyptian margin was an oblique margin with NW–SE
oriented transform fault system. In the Eastern Mediterranean basin, Mesozoic margins were …

Many passive margins have deep-water, contractional fold belts that formed above salt or
shale. Margin failure, accommodated by proximal extension and distal shortening, is caused …

This paper discusses the differences in mechanical properties and kinematics between fold-
and-thrust belts detaching on evaporitic décollements and those detaching on stronger …

The Nile deep-sea fan (NDSF), turbiditic system reaching a size of about 90,000 km2, has
been investigated since 1998 by several geophysical methods (multibeam bathymetry …

The Nile deep turbiditic system displays many fluid-releasing structures on the seabed: mud
volcanoes reassembling small cones (100–900 m in diameter), mud pies (5 km in diameter) …

This paper presents an overview of the evolution of the Nile deep‐sea turbidite system
during the last 200 kyr, over a series of glacial to interglacial cycles. Six individual deep‐sea …

The Messinian salinity crisis (MSC)[Hsü et al., 1973] has deeply shaped the Mediterranean
landscape and triggered large sedimentary deposits (evaporites and clastics) in the deep …

Using conceptual reasoning and results from physical models, we describe the mechanical
and kinematic characteristics of sediment wedges spreading seaward above a viscous …

A new high resolution bathymetric map of the Levant Basin between Israel and the
Eratosthenes Seamount reveals previously undetected folds, faults and channels. The map …