Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients between oceans and seas. As a result, changes in gateway geometry can significantly alter both the pattern of global ocean circulation and associated heat transport and climate, as well as having a profound impact on local environmental conditions. Mediterranean–Atlantic marine corridors that pre-date the modern Gibraltar Strait, closed during the Late Miocene and are now exposed on land in northern Morocco and southern Spain. The restriction and closure of these Miocene connections resulted in extreme salinity fluctuations in the Mediterranean, leading to the precipitation of thick evaporites. This event is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). ...
In the Early Miocene (23–16 Ma) the Mediterranean region was different from that at present. The Med...
© 2019, The Author(s). A global Neogene cooling trend culminated ~7 million years ago with the onse...
During the Late Miocene the Mediterranean experienced a period of extreme salinity fluctuations know...
Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients between ocea...
International audienceMarine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and ...
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debat...
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debat...
The Mediterranean Sea needs a connection to the world ocean otherwise it would evaporate. If the Gib...
The Mediterranean Sea needs a connection to the world ocean otherwise it would evaporate. If the Gib...
The Rifian Corridor was one of the Mediterranean–Atlantic seaways that progressively restricted and ...
The Rifian Corridor was one of the Mediterranean–Atlantic seaways that progressively restricted and ...
The semi-enclosed land-locked configuration makes the Mediterranean basin an ideal natural laborator...
The Mediterranean-Atlantic water mass exchange provides the ideal setting for deciphering the role o...
Mediterranean underwent progressive tectonic restriction, leading to the closure of the Betic and Ri...
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debat...
In the Early Miocene (23–16 Ma) the Mediterranean region was different from that at present. The Med...
© 2019, The Author(s). A global Neogene cooling trend culminated ~7 million years ago with the onse...
During the Late Miocene the Mediterranean experienced a period of extreme salinity fluctuations know...
Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients between ocea...
International audienceMarine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and ...
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debat...
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debat...
The Mediterranean Sea needs a connection to the world ocean otherwise it would evaporate. If the Gib...
The Mediterranean Sea needs a connection to the world ocean otherwise it would evaporate. If the Gib...
The Rifian Corridor was one of the Mediterranean–Atlantic seaways that progressively restricted and ...
The Rifian Corridor was one of the Mediterranean–Atlantic seaways that progressively restricted and ...
The semi-enclosed land-locked configuration makes the Mediterranean basin an ideal natural laborator...
The Mediterranean-Atlantic water mass exchange provides the ideal setting for deciphering the role o...
Mediterranean underwent progressive tectonic restriction, leading to the closure of the Betic and Ri...
The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debat...
In the Early Miocene (23–16 Ma) the Mediterranean region was different from that at present. The Med...
© 2019, The Author(s). A global Neogene cooling trend culminated ~7 million years ago with the onse...
During the Late Miocene the Mediterranean experienced a period of extreme salinity fluctuations know...