[HTML][HTML] Contourites and associated sediments controlled by deep-water circulation processes: State-of-the-art and future considerations

M Rebesco, FJ Hernández-Molina, D Van Rooij… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The contourite paradigm was conceived a few decades ago, yet there remains a need to
establish a sound connection between contourite deposits, basin evolution and …

The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes

KM Grant, R Grimm, U Mikolajewicz, G Marino… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon
variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the …

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 …

Regional and global benthic δ18O stacks for the last glacial cycle

LE Lisiecki, JV Stern - Paleoceanography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although detailed age models exist for some marine sediment records of the last glacial
cycle (0–150 ka), age models for many cores rely on the stratigraphic correlation of benthic …

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 …

Orbital-and sub-orbital-scale climate impacts on vegetation of the western Mediterranean basin over the last 48,000 yr

WJ Fletcher, MFS Goñi - Quaternary Research, 2008 - cambridge.org
High-resolution pollen analysis of Alborán Sea core MD95-2043 provides a 48-ka
continuous vegetation record that can be directly correlated with sea surface and deep …

Position of the Polar Front along the western Iberian margin during key cold episodes of the last 45 ka

F Eynaud, L De Abreu, A Voelker… - Geochemistry …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper documents the migration of the Polar Front (PF) over the Iberian margin during
some of the cold climatic extremes of the last 45 ka. It is based on a compilation of robust …

Formation processes of methane-derived authigenic carbonates from the Gulf of Cadiz

VH Magalhães, LM Pinheiro, MK Ivanov, E Kozlova… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic, represents an area of extensive formation of methane-derived
authigenic carbonates (MDAC), indicative of fluid seepage. These MDAC, that reach …

Wet to dry climatic trend in north-western Iberia within Heinrich events

F Naughton, MFS Goñi, M Kageyama, E Bard… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
The direct sea–land correlation applied to core MD99-2331 retrieved from the north-western
Iberian margin shows a two-phase pattern within Heinrich events 4, 2 and 1 in the ocean …

Contourites and bottom current reworked sands: Bed facies model and implications

S De Castro, FJ Hernández-Molina… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The differentiation of pure turbidites and contourites from mixed deposits—as the bottom
current reworked sands (BCRS)—in sedimentary cores and outcrops from the modern or …