Glacio-eustatic sea level lowering has often been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining
the onset of the Mediterranean evaporites during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). To …

A magnetobiostratigraphically calibrated mammal scale for the Neogene of Western Europe
is presented in this paper. The Mammal Neogene (MN) units originally proposed by Mein […

The Pontocaspian (Black Sea - Caspian Sea) region has a very dynamic history of basin
development and biotic evolution. The region is the remnant of a once vast Paratethys Sea. It …

The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused
much debate in the marine science community. Especially the suggestion that the …

An astronomical time scale is presented for the late Miocene based on the correlation of
characteristic sedimentary cycle patterns in marine sections in the Mediterranean to the 65N …

The Messinian salinity crisis is widely regarded as one of the most dramatic episodes of
oceanic change of the past 20 or so million years ( 1 – 3 ). Earliest explanations were that …

Calibration of the geological time scale is achieved by independent radioisotopic and
astronomical dating, but these techniques yield discrepancies of ∼1.0% or more, limiting our …

Continental aridification and the intensification of the monsoons in Asia are generally
attributed to uplift of the Tibetan plateau and to the land–sea redistributions associated with 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 …

Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic results are presented from Neogene deposits in
the Taza–Guercif Basin, located at the southern margin of the Rifian Corridor in Morocco. This …