The late Miocene evolution of the Mediterranean Basin is characterized by major changes in
connectivity, climate and tectonic activity resulting in unprecedented environmental and …

The environmental setting of the Dead Sea combines several aspects whose interplay
creates flow phenomena and transport processes that cannot be observed anywhere else …

Halokinetic deformations synchronous with salt deposition are processes already suggested
in several salt giants including the Lower Cretaceous salt deposits of the Santos Basin in …

Submarine channels serve as routes transporting sediments across hundreds of kilometers
from continental margins to the deepest parts of a basin's seafloor. Consequently, owing to …

The first deep-sea drilling expedition in the Mediterranean chanced upon unanticipated
discoveries when recovering deeply buried sediments of Late Miocene age that had once …

Halite sequences in the geological record accumulated in deep hypersaline basins.
However, such halite sequences are interpreted based on modern analogues of halite …

We present an overview of the crustal architecture of the continental margins of the oceanic
Algerian Basin in the westernmost Mediterranean Sea. During the Cenozoic, and with a …

Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) is a controversial geological event that
influenced the Mediterranean Basin in the late Miocene leaving behind a widespread Salt …

Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) successions record extreme fluctuations in the
Mediterranean's environmental conditions. However, some of the scenarios that are thought …

The industrial extraction of Y and lanthanides (hereafter defined as Rare Earth Elements,
REE) often requires the achievement of leaching procedures removing these metals from …