[HTML][HTML] Freshening of the Mediterranean Salt Giant: controversies and certainties around the terminal (Upper Gypsum and Lago-Mare) phases of the Messinian …

F Andreetto, G Aloisi, F Raad, H Heida, R Flecker… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The late Miocene evolution of the Mediterranean Basin is characterized by major changes in
connectivity, climate and tectonic activity resulting in unprecedented environmental and …

Pliocene to Pleistocene palynoflora and vegetation in Italy: state of the art

A Bertini - Quaternary International, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Mediterranean Sea biodiversity between the legacy from the past and a future of change

CN Bianchi, C Morri, M Chiantore… - Life in the …, 2012 - dueproject.org
ABSTRACT The Mediterranean Sea is a biodiversity hotspot containing between 15,000
and 20,000 marine species, nearly a quarter of which are endemic. The causes of the high …

High-resolution strontium isotope stratigraphy of the Messinian deep Mediterranean basins: Implications for marginal to central basins correlation

M Roveri, S Lugli, V Manzi, R Gennari, BC Schreiber - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract New 87 Sr/86 Sr data from DSDP–ODP Messinian cores from deep Mediterranean
basins suggest that the usually envisaged correlation of offshore Upper Evaporites with …

Intra-Messinian truncation surface in the Levant Basin explained by subaqueous dissolution

Z Gvirtzman, V Manzi, R Calvo, I Gavrieli… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) is an extreme event in Earth history during which a salt
giant (> 1× 10 6 km 3) accumulated on the Mediterranean seafloor within∼ 640 ky Erosional …

Paratethyan ostracods in the Spanish Lago-Mare: More evidence for interbasinal exchange at high Mediterranean sea level

M Stoica, W Krijgsman, A Fortuin, E Gliozzi - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
A gigantic cascade of Atlantic waters, filling the deep desiccated Mediterranean basin at the
beginning of the Pliocene, has commonly been envisaged to end the Messinian Salinity …

A new facies model for the Upper Gypsum of Sicily (Italy): chronological and palaeoenvironmental constraints for the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean

V Manzi, S Lugli, M Roveri… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Upper Gypsum unit of the Caltanissetta Basin (Sicily) records the last phase of
the Messinian salinity crisis comprising the so‐called 'Lago Mare'event. A new facies …

Sedimentary evolution of the Neogene-Quaternary Crotone Basin (southern Italy) and relationships with large-scale tectonics: A sequence stratigraphic approach

M Zecchin, D Civile, M Caffau, S Critelli, F Muto… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Crotone Basin is a Neogene-Quaternary depocenter developed along the
Ionian margin of Calabria, southern Italy. The basin opening was concomitant with the onset …

Late Neogene erosion of the Alps: A climate driver?

SD Willett - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2010 - annualreviews.org
As with many mountain belts globally, the Alps have seen a large increase in sediment yield
in the late Neogene. The hypothesis that this increase results from climate-change impacts …