Lithospheric-scale geodynamic context of the Messinian salinity crisis

Jolivet, Laurent; Augier, Romain; Robin, Cécile; Suc, Jean‐Pierre; Rouchy, J. M.

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.02.004

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“…B) Paleocenaographic map of the Western Mediterranean basins during the Messinian salinity crisis, showing the main evaporite depocenters (dotted areas). Modified after Jolivet et al (2006). Emerged areas are in gray; dotted line is the modern coastline; star indicates the study area; CB, Caltanissetta basin; SB, Sorbas basin; VdGB, Vena del Gesso basin.…”

Section: The Record Of the Salinity-crisis Acme (Stage 2) In The Caltmentioning

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“…During the late Miocene the paleoenvironment of the Mediterranean underwent an important geodynamic event resulting in the tectonic reorganization of the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary and significant physiographic changes (Duggen et al 2003;Jolivet et al 2006;Govers et al 2008). However, the Messinian paleogeography and paleoceanography of the Mediterranean area remains under debate (Blanc 2000;Meijer and Krijgsman 2005;Gargani and Rigollet 2008;Govers et al 2008), especially concerning basin depth, sea level, and land distribution (see Fig.…”

Section: Main Implications For the Messinian Salinity Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

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High-Frequency Cyclicity In the Mediterranean Messinian Evaporites: Evidence For Solar-Lunar Climate Forcing

Manzi¹,

Gennari²,

Lugli³

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Journal of Sedimentary Research

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The deposition of varved sedimentary sequences is usually controlled by climate conditions. The study of two late Miocene evaporite successions (one halite and the other gypsum) consisting of annual varves has been carried out to reconstruct the paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental conditions existing during the acme of the Messinian salinity crisis, , 6 Ma, when thick evaporite deposits accumulated on the floor of the Mediterranean basin. Spectral analyses of these varved evaporitic successions reveal significant periodicity peaks at around 3-5, 9, 11-13, 20-27 and 50-100 yr. A comparison with modern precipitation data in the western Mediterranean shows that during the acme of the Messinian salinity crisis the climate was not in a permanent evaporitic stage, but in a dynamic situation where evaporite deposition was controlled by quasi-periodic climate oscillations with similarity to modern analogs including Quasi-Biennial Oscillation, El Niño Southern Oscillation, and decadal to secular lunar-and solar-induced cycles. Particularly we found a significant quasi-decadal oscillation with a prominent 9-year peak that is commonly also found in modern temperature records and is present in the contemporary Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index. These cyclicities are common to both ancient and modern climate records because they can be associated with solar and solar-lunar tidal cycles.During the Messinian the Mediterranean basin as well as the global ocean were characterized by different configurations than at present, in terms of continent distribution, ocean size, geography, hydrological connections, and ice-sheet volumes. The recognition of modern-style climate oscillations during the Messinian suggests that, although local geographic factors acted as pre-conditioning factors turning the Mediterranean Sea into a giant brine pool, external climate forcings, regulated by solarlunar cycles and largely independent from local geographic factors, modulated the deposition of the evaporites.

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Section: The Record Of the Salinity-crisis Acme (Stage 2) In The Caltmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Main Implications For the Messinian Salinity Crisismentioning

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High-Frequency Cyclicity In the Mediterranean Messinian Evaporites: Evidence For Solar-Lunar Climate Forcing

Manzi¹,

Gennari²,

Lugli³

et al. 2012

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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“…The Pozzuoli marine and volcanic sequences have been deformed by kilometer-scale folding during a main compressional event, probably due to tectonic inversions of the basin, already documented on the Tyrrhenian margin (Sartori et al 2004;Jolivet et al 2006;Gaullier et al 2010). Based on seismo-stratigraphic evidence the uplift of the marine terrace of ''La Starza'', on which the town of Pozzuoli is located (Dvorak and Mastrolorenzo 1991;Morhange et al 2005), and the formation of an erosional platform on the inner Pozzuoli continental shelf are linked to an anticlinal crest, while the present basin depocenter is located on a syncline (Fig.…”

Section: Seismic Stratigraphy Of the Gulf Of Pozzuoli And Phlegrean Fmentioning

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New seismo-stratigraphic and marine magnetic data of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Naples Bay, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): inferences for the tectonic and magmatic events of the Phlegrean Fields volcanic complex (Campania)

2012

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A detailed reconstruction of the stratigraphic and tectonic setting of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Naples Bay) is provided on the basis of newly acquired single channel seismic profiles coupled with already recorded marine magnetics gathering the volcanic nature of some seismic units. Inferences for the tectonic and magmatic setting of the Phlegrean Fields volcanic complex, a volcanic district surrounding the western part of the Gulf of Naples, where volcanism has been active since at least 50 ka, are also discussed. The Gulf of Pozzuoli represents the submerged border of the Phlegrean caldera, resulting from the volcano-tectonic collapse induced from the pyroclastic flow deposits of the Campanian Ignimbrite (35 ka). Several morpho-depositional units have been identified, i.e., the inner continental shelf, the central basin, the submerged volcanic banks and the outer continental shelf. The stratigraphic relationships between the Quaternary volcanic units related to the offshore caldera border and the overlying deposits of the Late Quaternary depositional sequence in the Gulf of Pozzuoli have been highlighted. Fourteen main seismic units, both volcanic and sedimentary, tectonically controlled due to contemporaneous folding and normal faulting have been revealed by geological interpretation. Volcanic dykes, characterized by acoustically transparent sub-vertical bodies, locally bounded by normal faults, testify to the magma uprising in correspondence with extensional structures. A large field of tuff cones interlayered with marine deposits off the island of Nisida, on the western rim of the gulf, is related to the emplacement of the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff deposits. A thick volcanic unit, exposed over a large area off the Capo Miseno volcanic edifice is connected with the Bacoli-Isola Pennata-Capo Miseno yellow tuffs, cropping out in the northern Phlegrean Fields.

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“…Evaporitic deposits formed in the Red Sea, the Mesopotamian basin and along the northern margin of Africa in the Sirt basin (Gvirtzman and Buchbinder, 1978;Rögl and Steininger, 1983;Jolivet et al, 2006). Many larger foraminifera became extinct in Tethys, where 60% of the global extinctions happened.…”

Section: General Characteristics Of the Distribution Of Neogene Largementioning

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Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera

2018

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Lithospheric-scale geodynamic context of the Messinian salinity crisis

Cited by 206 publications

References 147 publications

High-Frequency Cyclicity In the Mediterranean Messinian Evaporites: Evidence For Solar-Lunar Climate Forcing

High-Frequency Cyclicity In the Mediterranean Messinian Evaporites: Evidence For Solar-Lunar Climate Forcing

New seismo-stratigraphic and marine magnetic data of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Naples Bay, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy): inferences for the tectonic and magmatic events of the Phlegrean Fields volcanic complex (Campania)

Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera

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