Depositional and diagenetic environments of the Messinian Calcare di Base and sulfur-bearing carbonates from Sicily and Calabria

Paleoecological constraints on reef-coral morphologies in the Tortonian-early Messinian of the Lorca Basin, SE Spain.

Coral reefs represent one of the main carbonate factories that contributed to the control of the stratigraphic architecture of carbonate platforms, which had a widespread development during the late Miocene in the paleo-Mediterranean area. The late Miocene reef complexes of the Lorca Basin in southeastern Spain are composed of five mixed siliciclastic/carbonate units, middle Tortonian to early Messinian in age. The development of coral reefs probably ceased when the first evaporitic event occurred in the basin centre in the early Messinian. This study mainly focuses on the response of reef communities and the modifications of reef organisation to global and regional parameters. At the platf…

Revised timing and evolution of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Mediterranean area

Paleoenvironmental changes at the Messinian/Pliocene boundary in the Alboran Area: The example of the Melilla Basin, NE Marocco

High resolution stratigraphy and stable isotopes at the Messinian/Zanclean boundary. In the Mediterranean basins. Paleoceanographic reconstruction

Paleoenvironmental changes during the calcare di base deposition a prelude to the Messinian salinity crisis.

Reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental changes around the Messinian-Pliocene boundary along a W-E transect across the Mediterranean

The end of the Messinian salinity crisis: new insights from the Chelif Basin (Algeria)

New insights on the onset of the Messinian salinity crisis in Cyprus (East Mediterranean)