[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 …

Chronology with a pinch of salt: Integrated stratigraphy of Messinian evaporites in the deep Eastern Mediterranean reveals long-lasting halite deposition during …

A Meilijson, F Hilgen, J Sepúlveda, J Steinberg… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC; 5.97–5.33 Ma) is considered an extreme
environmental event driven by changes in climate and tectonics, which affected global …

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 …

Large sea surface temperature, salinity, and productivity‐preservation changes preceding the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

I Vasiliev, V Karakitsios, I Bouloubassi… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC; 5.97–5.33 Ma) is an enigmatic episode of
paleoceanographic change, when kilometer‐thick evaporite units were deposited in the …

Decoding sea surface and paleoclimate conditions in the eastern Mediterranean over the Tortonian-Messinian Transition

G Kontakiotis, E Besiou, A Antonarakou… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
New sedimentological, micropaleontological and geochemical data from the Upper Miocene
pre-evaporitic sedimentary sequence of the Faneromeni section (Crete Island, eastern …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition …

G Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, D Vasilyan… - Palaeontologia …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
We herein describe the fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene (latest Miocene or
earliest Pliocene; MN 13/14) locality of Maramena, in northern Greece. The herpetofauna is …

[HTML][HTML] Changing seas in the late Miocene Northern Aegean: A Paratethyan approach to Mediterranean basin evolution

W Krijgsman, DV Palcu, F Andreetto, M Stoica… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Northern Aegean region evolved during the Miocene as a restricted land-
locked basin with small ephemeral connections to both the Eastern Paratethys (former Black …

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 …

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 …

Core complex segmentation in North Aegean, a dynamic view

JP Brun, D Sokoutis - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The core complexes of the North Aegean result from the gravity spreading of a thrust wedge,
driven by the Hellenic slab rollback, since middle Eocene. The development of the Southern …