The Messinian Salinity Crisis: New seismic evidence in the West-Sardinian Margin and Eastern Sardo-Provençal basin (West Mediterranean Sea)

Geletti, R.; Zgur, F.; Ben, Anna Del; Buriola, F.; Fais, Silvana; Fedi, Maurizio; Forte, Emanuele; Mocnik, Arianna; Paoletti, Valeria; Pipan, M.; Ramella, R.; Romeo, Roberto; Romi, A.

doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2014.03.019

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“…Locally, evaporite deposition occurred also on the upper continental slopes and shelves (Lofi et al 2011a;Geletti et al 2014), as well as in the present onshore regions (Cornée et al 2008), probably during the first phase of the MSC (Butler et al 1995; Fig. 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2): MS (Mediterranean Sea, Finetti & Morelli 1973), CROP (CROsta Profonda, Scrocca et al 2003;Finetti 2005), WS10 (West Sardinia, Geletti et al 2014) and SF12 (Eurofleets project Salt deformation and sub-salt Fluid circulation -SALTFLU). The MS and CROP regional projects covered extensive areas of the Mediterranean, while WS10 and SF12 were targeted to specific regions.…”

Section: Seismic Datasetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A semi-transparent layer within the upper part of UU has been highlighted in the Sardo-Provençal basin (Fig. 8b), which has been labelled 's' according to Geletti et al (2014). Internal configuration and geometry of the 's' layer suggest it is composed of salt.…”

Section: Deep Basinsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rollover structures (Figs 6 and 11) are particularly evident on the conjugate margins of the Sardo-Provençal basin (e.g. Sage et al 2005;Lofi et al 2011a;Geletti et al 2014) as a response to a progressively increasing slope angle of a subsiding continental margin loaded by terrigenous sedimentary input. Salt flow toward the basin is less represented in the data of the northern margin of the Algero-Balearic basin, with rare and weaker rollover structures.…”

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“…At the end of the MSC at 5.33 Ma, sea water refilled the Mediterranean basin and the Lower Pliocene (LP) pelagic sediments draped the margins extending to the entire Western Mediterranean basin Rehault et al 1984) with a typical semi-transparent acoustic facies. The Upper PlioceneQuaternary (UPQ) more reflective turbiditic layers correspond to coarse sediments deposited by European rivers (Rehault et al 1984;Sage et al 2005;Aslanian et al 2012;Geletti et al 2014).…”

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Seismic imaging of Late Miocene (Messinian) evaporites from Western Mediterranean back-arc basins

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An analysis of multichannel seismic reflection data was conducted focusing on the comparison between the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) and Plio-Quaternary (PQ) evolution of the eastern Sardo-Provençal and northern AlgeroBalearic basins and related margins in the West Mediterranean Sea. Both basins were completely opened during the MSC and their well-defined seismic stratigraphy is very similar in the deep parts. The primary difference between these two basins is due to their different pre-MSC extensional history, including the opening age and the stretching factors. These factors influenced the occurrence of post-MSC salt tectonics on these margins.

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