Causes and consequences of the Messinian salinity crisis

W Krijgsman, EJ Rohling, DV Palcu, F Raad… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Salt giants are massive salt deposits (hundreds of metres thick) that form during the
evaporation of semi-enclosed seas. The drivers of salt giant formation and their feedbacks …

Hypersalinity accompanies tectonic restriction in the eastern Mediterranean prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis

G Kontakiotis, GA Butiseacă, A Antonarakou… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study describes the hydroclimate evolution of the eastern Mediterranean Basin during
the early Messinian (7.2 to 6.5 Ma) time-interval based on analysis of a succession at Agios …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoceanographic perturbations and the marine carbonate system during the middle to late Miocene carbonate crash—a critical review

I Preiss-Daimler, SD Zarkogiannis, G Kontakiotis… - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study intends to review and assess the middle to late Miocene Carbonate Crash (CC)
events in the low to mid latitudes of the Pacific, Indian, Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans as …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connectivity and the late Miocene carbon shift on deep-sea communities in the Western Alboran Basin

F Bulian, TJ Kouwenhoven, FJ Jiménez-Espejo… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Integration of foraminiferal and geochemical data (stable isotope and elemental
composition) from West Alboran Basin (WAB) ODP Site 976 allowed evaluation of the effects …

Late Miocene–Early Pliocene evolution of Mediterranean gobies and their environmental and biogeographic significance

W Schwarzhans, K Agiadi, G Carnevale - Rivista Italiana di …, 2020 - riviste.unimi.it
The Lago Mare phase at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) in the Mediterranean
has long been known for the Paratethyan affinities of its biota. The taxonomic level of these …

Multiple crises preceded the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis: Aridification and vegetation changes revealed by biomarkers and stable isotopes

GA Butiseacă, MTJ Van der Meer, G Kontakiotis… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Messinian (7.24–5.33 Ma), the highly dynamic Mediterranean
environment was concomitantly governed by global climate changes and regional tectonic …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary facies analysis, reservoir characteristics and paleogeography significance of the early jurassic to eocene carbonates in epirus (Ionian Zone …

G Kontakiotis, L Moforis, V Karakitsios… - Journal of Marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sedimentological, micropalaeontological, and marine geological results from the Early
Jurassic to Eocene carbonate formations of the Ionian zone, from six localities of Epirus …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary and diagenetic controls across the Cretaceous—Paleogene transition: new paleoenvironmental insights of the external Ionian zone from the …

L Moforis, G Kontakiotis, HT Janjuhah… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Field investigation, biostratigraphic, paleoecological, and sedimentary microfacies analyses,
as well as diagenetic processes characterization, were carried out in the Epirus region …

Preliminary results based on geochemical sedimentary constraints on the hydrocarbon potential and depositional environment of a Messinian sub-salt mixed …

G Kontakiotis, V Karakitsios, JJ Cornée… - Mediterranean …, 2020 - Springer
This study details new geochemical analysis from an outcrop in Crete to improve
understanding of the hydrocarbon potential of the southern margin of the Hellenic Arc along …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological constraints of plankton bio-indicators for water column stratification and productivity: a case study of the Holocene North Aegean sedimentary …

C Giamali, G Kontakiotis, A Antonarakou… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study presents novel findings on the drivers of the calcitic planktonic foraminiferal and
aragonitic pteropod Holocene assemblages of the North Aegean Trough (northeastern …