In:
Terra Nova, Wiley, Vol. 21, No. 1 ( 2009-02), p. 41-48
Abstract:
Outcrops, offshore wells, electric logs and seismic profiles from northern Tunisia provide an opportunity to decipher the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Strait of Sicily. Messinian deposits (including gypsum beds) near the Tellian Range reveal two successive subaerial erosional surfaces overlain by breccias and marine Zanclean clays, respectively. In the Gulf of Tunis, Messinian thick evaporites (mostly halite) are strongly eroded by a fluvial canyon infilled with Zanclean clays. The first erosional phase is referred to the intra‐Messinian tectonic phase and is analogous to that found in Sicily. The second phase corresponds to the Messinian Erosional Surface that postdates the marginal evaporites, to which the entire Sicilian evaporitic series must refer. The Western and Eastern Mediterranean basins were separated during deposition of the central evaporites.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0954-4879
,
1365-3121
DOI:
10.1111/ter.2009.21.issue-1
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00852.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2009
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1000080-X
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2020958-7
SSG:
13
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