While the Mediterranean coastal region of the Nile Delta is critical socioeconomically, it is
under significant environmental stress due to the growing load from diverse land-based …

Understanding the effects of clay minerals and amino acids on methane hydrate (MH)
formation is essential for elucidating the occurrence of MH in marine sediments. In this study …

Different source areas, oceanography and climate regimes influenced the clay mineral
assemblages and grain size distribution of two sediment cores from the North and South …

Specific responses of the regional deep-sea ecosystems to climatic and oceanographic
processes during the last 22 kyr are revealed by benthic foraminiferal faunas from two cores …

The controlling mechanisms for the accumulation and preservation of organic matter in
residual bay environments during the transition from marine to continental settings are not …

Clay mineralogy combined with high-resolution element geochemistry of core MD90-9064,
located in the distal part of the Nile deep-sea fan (Levantine Basin), have been investigated …

Seismic profiling, bathymetric and physical oceanographic data collected from the
Çanakkale Strait revealed that the morphological evolution of the strait has been controlled …

Abstract Bryozoans in the Mediterranean Sea are recognized as bioconstructional
framework builders, both primary builders that construct frameworks alone or in combination …

The study of benthic foraminifera in a complex marine system, like the Marmara Sea, is a key
for understanding the influence of environmental factors on foraminiferal species, density …

The Aegean Sea covers an area of some 160× 103km2 and receives the water/sediment
fluxes from a mountainous drainage basin of> 200× 103km2. On the basis of its …