We have examined the possible use of Mn/Ca ratios in benthic foraminifera as a proxy for
hypoxia, which has increasingly become a serious environmental issue in many coastal …

The Late Cretaceous succession in Israel is part of an extensive high-productivity upwelling
regime that persisted over~ 20m. y. in the southern margins of Tethys. The deposition of a …

Santonian–Paleocene marls and fine grained carbonates have been sampled in Hasbayya
locality, south Lebanon, in order to evaluate their organic matter (OM) content, petroleum …

The Levantine high productivity sequence is a product of an extensive upwelling system that
operated in the Late Cretaceous along the SE Tethyan margin. This system resulted in the …

Late Cretaceous sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were reconstructed based on TEX 86
data from the unique high productivity upwelling system in the Southern Tethys margin …

Samples of Turonian–upper Campanian fine‐grained carbonates (marls, mud‐to
wackestones; n= 212) from four boreholes near Chekka, northern Lebanon, were analysed …

We integrate previously published data from geochemistry, clay mineralogy, and benthic
foraminifera with new findings from calcareous nannofossils and the sulfur content to …

More than 60 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas have been recently discovered in the
Levant Basin (eastern Mediterranean region) offshore Cyprus, Egypt and Israel, Palestine …

Phosphorites are an essential natural resource for producing phosphoric acid, phosphate
fertilizers, and phosphate-based products. Detailed characterization and an appropriate …

It has generally been argued that the majority of fossil benthic foraminifera, the most
common proxy for paleo bottom oceanic conditions, could not tolerate anoxia. Here we …