The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Dardanelles Region: Chronostratigraphic Constraints
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 278 (2009) 24–39 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Dardanelles region: Chronostratigraphic constraints Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu a, Jean-Pierre Suc b,⁎, Georges Clauzon c, Speranta-Maria Popescu b, Rolando Armijo d, Bertrand Meyer e, Demet Biltekin f, M. NamıkÇağatay f, Gülsen Ucarkus f, Gwénaël Jouannic e, Séverine Fauquette g, Ziyadin Çakir f a National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-ecology (GEOECOMAR), 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul Street, RO-024053 Bucharest, Romania b Laboratoire PaléoEnvironnements et PaléobioSphère, UMR 5125, CNRS, France; Université Lyon 1, Campus de La Doua, Bâtiment Géode, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France c C.E.R.E.G.E. (UMR 6635 CNRS), Université Paul Cezanne, 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France d Laboratoire de Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (UMR 7154 CNRS), 75252 Paris Cedex, France e Université Pierre et Marie Curie, ISTeP, UMR 7193, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France f Istanbul Technical University, School of Mines and Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Maslak, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey g Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR 5554 CNRS), Equipe Paléoenvironnements et Paléoclimats, CC 061, Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France article info abstract Article history: An intense controversy on chronostratigraphy of upper Miocene–lower Pliocene deposits and the Messinian Received 31 August 2008 Salinity Crisis in the Dardanelles area led to a systematic investigation of calcareous nannoplankton content Received in revised form 29 March 2009 of 10 key-sections representative of the most relevant regional Kirazlı and Alçıtepe formations.
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