High-frequency cyclicity in the latest Messinian Adriatic foreland basin: Insight into palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironments of the Mediterranean Lago-Mare episode

Deep-seated hydrocarbons in the seep “Brecciated Limestones” of the Maiella area (Adriatic foreland basin): Evaporitic sealing and oil re-mobilization effects linked to the drawdown of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

“…The MSC, which was responsible for the deposition of the "Primary Lower Gypsum" and the post-evaporitic Lago-Mare succession in the area (Bonarelli, 1951;Di Napoli Alliata, 1964;Crescenti et al, 1969a, b;Catenacci, 1974;Clermontè and Geisler, 1977;Patacca et al, 1992;Cipollari et al, 1999Cipollari et al, , 2003Gliozzi et al, 2002;Crescenti et al, 2002;Centamore and Nisio, 2003;Cosentino et al, 2005Cosentino et al, , 2011Cosentino et al, , 2013Sampalmieri et al, 2008;Sampalmieri et al, 2010;Iadanza et al, 2013;Schildgen et al, 2014), was followed by the Early Pliocene flooding event that marked the end of the crisis and was responsible for the deposition of bathyal clays (MPL1-lower MPL2 biozones; Cipollari et al, 2003).…”

“…Finally, p-ev2 deposits unconformably overlie p-ev1 deposits through a younger erosional surface (MES2, Cosentino et al, 2010;Cipollari et al, 2013) and are overlain by Early Pliocene bathyal clays (Cipollari et al, 2003). P-ev2 deposits in the Maiella area contain rich Lago-Mare fauna with Paratethyan immigrants (Patacca et al, 1992;Cipollari et al, 1999;Gliozzi et al, 2002;Crescenti et al, 2002;Cosentino et al, 2005Gliozzi et al, 2012).…”

Subsurface seepage dynamics and flow types in a Messinian paleoseep system (Maiella Mts., Central Italy)

“…1c, 2a) rest above ramp limestones and marls (Bolognano Formation) and are well known from both wells and outcrop data (Di Napoli Alliata, 1964;Crescenti et al, 1969Crescenti et al, , 2002Crescenti, 1975;Patacca et al, 1992;Cipollari et al, 1999;Cosentino et al, 2005Cosentino et al, , 2013Sampalmieri et al, 2008Sampalmieri et al, , 2010. In the NW Maiella sector they include pre-evaporitic euxinic blue clays, Lower Evaporites, Resedimented Lower Evaporites, and the lower-to-upper postevaporitic pelitic marls (Fig.…”

“…Resedimented Lower Evaporites, together with marls and clayey marls associated with the "Brecciated Limestones" unit (sensu Iadanza et al, 2013), rest above the MES and constitute the lower post-evaporitic portion (p-ev1; Sampalmieri et al, 2008Sampalmieri et al, , 2010Cosentino et al, 2013). The upper post-evaporitic succession (p-ev2) in turn unconformably overlies the p-ev1 deposits through a younger erosional surface (MES2, Cipollari et al, 2013), and in the Maiella area it documents the occurrence of the late Messinian Lago-Mare oligohaline event (Cipollari et al, 1999;Gliozzi et al, 2002;Crescenti et al, 2002;Cosentino et al, 2005Grossi et al, 2008), correlatable to the Loxocorniculina djaffarovi zone (Carbonnel, 1978;Grossi et al, 2011).…”

Late Miocene fish otoliths from the Colombacci Formation (Northern Apennines, Italy): implications for the Messinian ‘Lago-mare’ event

“…The migration of Paratethyan ostracods in the Mediterranean probably preceded the post-evaporitic phase of the Messinian, since molluscs (Cipollari et al 1999) and dinocysts (Kontopoulos et al 1997) of Paratethyan affinity were already present in this area, at least during the first part of the Messinian. However, the dramatic radiation of the biota of Paratethyan affinity in the Mediterranean occurred later due to the combined effect of the wide development of marginal and satellite basins in coincidence with one of the strongest phase of geodynamic activity of the Neogene, with a major reorganisation of the African-Eurasian convergent plate boundary zone (see Meulenkam and Sissingh 2003), and of the humid conditions related to the northern displacement of the monsoonal system (Griffin 2002;Cosentino et al 2005). The widespread development of marginal basins and the humid phase related to the onset of a monsoonal regime, created, in the entire Mediterranean region, optimal conditions for the rapid diffusion and demographic explosion of the taxa of Paratethyan affinity.…”