Astronomical tuning of the Messinian pre-salt succession in the Levant Basin allows for the first time the reconstruction of a detailed chronology of the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) events in deep setting and their correlation with marginal records that supports the CIESM (2008) 3-stage model. Our main conclusions are (1) MSC events were synchronous across marginal and deep basins, (2) MSC onset in deep basins occurred at 5.97 Ma, (3) only foraminifera-barren, evaporite-free shales accumulated in deep settings between 5.97 and 5.60 Ma, (4) deep evaporites (anhydrite and halite) deposition started later, at 5.60 Ma and (5) new and published Sr-87/Sr-86 data indicate that during all stages, evaporites precipitated from the samewater body in all the Mediterranean sub-basins. The wide synchrony of events and Sr-87/Sr-86 homogeneity implies inter-sub-basin connection during the whole MSC and is not compatible with large sea-level fall and desiccation of the Mediterranean.
The onset of the Messinian salinity crisis in the deep Eastern Mediterranean basin / Manzi, Vinicio; Gennari, Rocco; Lugli, Stefano; Persico, Davide; Reghizzi, Matteo; Roveri, Marco; Charlotte Schreiber, B.; Calvo, Ran; Gavrieli, Ittai; Gvirtzman, Zohar. - In: TERRA NOVA. - ISSN 1365-3121. - 30:(2018), pp. 189-198. [10.1111/ter.12325]
The onset of the Messinian salinity crisis in the deep Eastern Mediterranean basin.
Vinicio Manzi
;Davide Persico;Marco Roveri;
2018-01-01
Abstract
Astronomical tuning of the Messinian pre-salt succession in the Levant Basin allows for the first time the reconstruction of a detailed chronology of the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) events in deep setting and their correlation with marginal records that supports the CIESM (2008) 3-stage model. Our main conclusions are (1) MSC events were synchronous across marginal and deep basins, (2) MSC onset in deep basins occurred at 5.97 Ma, (3) only foraminifera-barren, evaporite-free shales accumulated in deep settings between 5.97 and 5.60 Ma, (4) deep evaporites (anhydrite and halite) deposition started later, at 5.60 Ma and (5) new and published Sr-87/Sr-86 data indicate that during all stages, evaporites precipitated from the samewater body in all the Mediterranean sub-basins. The wide synchrony of events and Sr-87/Sr-86 homogeneity implies inter-sub-basin connection during the whole MSC and is not compatible with large sea-level fall and desiccation of the Mediterranean.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.