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 …

Fifty-four Italian pollen sites, spanning the last 5.3 Ma, have been the object of an updated
synthesis. The chronostratigraphic framework of floral and vegetational events illustrates 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 …

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 detailed facies and physical stratigraphic analysis of the Primary Lower Gypsum in the
Mediterranean indicates a surprising bed-by-bed correlation at basin-scale (Spain, Italy …

Aim Our aims were to assess the phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in eastern
Mediterranean water frogs and to estimate divergence times using different geological …

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 …

During the Late Miocene–Pleistocene interval, a complex system of elongate foredeeps, the
Po Plain-Adriatic Foredeep (PPAF), developed in the eastern sector of the Po Plain and in …

An outline of the geology of the Italian Northern Apennines, to accompany a geological map
at 1: 250,000 scale covering the Emilia-Romagna, Marche, Tuscany and Umbria regions, is …

In the last 15 years, several Eni-Agip multidisciplinary studies were focused on the buried
Messinian–Pleistocene succession of the eastern Po Plain and northern Adriatic Sea. A …