For 50 years the existence of sapropels (organic-carbon-rich sediments) deposited within
Plio–Pleistocene sediments of the Mediterranean Sea has been known. Initially, research …

Early marine seafloor lithification of carbonate sediments leads to the formation of
hardgrounds and is known from rocks as old as the Proterozoic. Hardground surfaces …

At present two brine-filled depressions have been identified in the eastern Mediterranean-
The Tyro Basin (33° 53′ N, 26° 02′ E) and the Bannock Basin (34° 20′ N, 20° 02′ E). In …

A Middle to Upper Jurassic succession of submarine hardgrounds overlain by nodular
limestones is exposed in the Jura mountains and in the Helvetic of the Swiss Alps. These …

Recent investigations of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea carried out during the GECO cruise
with RV Urania provided a substantial number of new cold-water coral (CWC) records …

Phosphatic and carbonate hardgrounds occur in a Lower Miocene nontropical carbonate
succession in the Maiella carbonate platform margin, located in the Central Apennines …

Four hemipelagic lithological units are identified in the late glacial to Holocene sediments in
the Aegean Sea. These lithologies are silty-clay and clay in texture and include a varying …

Mg-calcite was precipitated at 25° C in closed system, free-drift experiments, from solutions
containing NaHCO3, CaCl2 and MgCl2. The carbon stable isotope composition of bulk solid …

The Kälberstein quarry at Berchtesgaden exposes Carnian-Norian deeper-water Hallstatt
limestones. Conodont biostratigraphy, microfacies and stable isotopes of bulk carbonate …

Modern and widespread deep-water coral ecosystems have become a major target of
research during the last decades. So far, only a few fossil counterparts of such carbonate …