After a long period of controversial debate about the interpretation of the Messinian salinity
crisis (MSC), a near consensus existed since the ODP Leg 42A for a model keeping 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 latest Miocene (5.96 to 5.33 Ma) is characterised by an outstanding event: the
desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea (Messinian salinity crisis). It has been suggested that …

Organic-walled resting cysts of planktonic dinoflagellates occur commonly in modern marine
sediment where they represent, with rare exceptions, the only geologically preservable part …

A recently published scenario viewing the Messinian salinity crisis as two evaporitic steps
rather than one has led to a search for new indices of the crisis in the Eastern Paratethys …

A semi-quantitative evaluation method has been developed to map integrated fossil plant
records (leaf, fruit, and pollen assemblages) in terms of zonal vegetation. It incorporates …

The northern Mediterranean reptiles and amphibians show contrasting biogeographic
histories during the Plio-Pleistocene. The influence of European climate changes on the …

Pollen analysis of sections spanning the Middle Miocene (Langhian and Serravallian) from
southern Spain to Switzerland has been carried out with the aim of reconstructing the …