Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6441656 | Marine Geology | 2014 | 34 Pages |
Abstract
The very high-resolution timescale available for some Late Miocene intervals in the Mediterranean makes it possible to consider environmental variability on extremely short time scales including, in some places, annual changes. Despite this, fundamental questions remain, some of which could be answered through new cores from the deepest Mediterranean basins. Improvements in seismic imaging and drilling techniques over the last few decades make it possible to plan to core the entire basinal Messinian succession for the first time. The resulting data would allow us to decipher the causes of this extreme environmental change and its global-scale consequences.
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Authors
Marco Roveri, Rachel Flecker, Wout Krijgsman, Johanna Lofi, Stefano Lugli, Vinicio Manzi, Francisco J. Sierro, Adele Bertini, Angelo Camerlenghi, Gert De Lange, Rob Govers, Frits J. Hilgen, Christian Hübscher, Paul Th. Meijer, Marius Stoica,