A paleoenvironmental test of the Messinian Salinity Crisis using Miocene-Pliocene clays in the Adana Basin, Southern Turkey

Darbas G., NAZİK A., TEMEL A., Guerbuez K.

APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE, vol.40, pp.108-118, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 40
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.clay.2007.09.007
  • Journal Name: APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.108-118
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The Messinian Salinity Crisis is an important paleooceanographic event around the Mediterranean area. Due to the collision of the North African Plate with the European Plate the Mediterranean area lost its connection to the Atlantic. The Mediterranean sea became shallower; the biota changed and thick evaporitic beds were formed.