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Correlations and sequence stratigraphic model for Messinian carbonate platforms of the western and central Mediterranean

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Distance correlations of Late Tortonian–Messinian littoral carbonate complexes are proposed from the study of eight platforms in the western and central Mediterranean. Correlations are based on the identification of two major biological sedimentary cycles and of two index surfaces. Surface A is a maximum flooding surface during cycle 1 at around 6.7 Ma. Surface B is a regional marine planation surface at around 5.95 Ma, at the base of cycle 2 (Terminal Carbonate Complex). A general sedimentary model is proposed for the 7–5.6-Ma time-span. The boundary between cycles 1 and 2 is coincident with the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, and appears to be related to major environmental–paleo-oceanographic changes in the Mediterranean, rather than to a major sea-level drop or to climatic change.

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This work was conducted in the frame of the INSU “ECLIPSE” program. The authors thank J. Muller, J.-P. Suc, S. Ferry, and G. Féraud for scientific debates, and the three referees, D. Bosence, J. Martin, and M. Pedley for significant improvements to the manuscript.

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    Jean-Jacques Cornée

  2. UMR 6019, Université de Provence, case 67, 13331 Marseille Cedex 03, France

    Jean-Paul Saint Martin, Gilles Conesa & Philippe Münch

  3. Laboratoire de géologie, Université d’Angers, UFR Sciences, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex, France

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  4. Université de Bucarest, faculté de Géologie et Géophysique, 1 bd N. Balcescu, Bucarest, Romania

    Simona Saint Martin

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    Stefan Roger

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Cornée, JJ., Saint Martin, JP., Conesa, G. et al. Correlations and sequence stratigraphic model for Messinian carbonate platforms of the western and central Mediterranean. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 93, 621–633 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-004-0400-0

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