Controls on the basinwide architecture of late Miocene (Messinian) evaporites on the Levant margin (Eastern Mediterranean)

Bertoni, Claudia; Cartwright, Joe

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.019

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“…This was determined using an average interval velocity of 2000m s À1 derived from velocity checkshot data (Frey-Martinez et al, 2005). The Messinian evaporites are characterised by a lower dominant frequency of 30 Hz, although the frequency within the Messinian is variable and this results in changes in vertical resolution within this unit (Bertoni and Cartwright, 2006).…”

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Interactions between submarine channel systems and deformation in deepwater fold belts: Examples from the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean sea

Clark

Cartwright

2009

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Interactions between submarine channel systems and deformation in deepwater fold belts: Examples from the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean sea

Clark

Cartwright

2009

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…The high-amplitude drawdown resulted in a polyphased high-relief erosional surface recognized over most of the Mediterranean margins, the Messinian Erosional Surface (MES) (Cita and Ryan, 1978;Clauzon, 1982;Hsü et al, 1973Hsü et al, , 1978Maillard et al, 2004;Fabbri and Curzi, 1979;Bertoni and Cartwright, 2006;Rouchy and Caruso, 2006). The MES roughly correlates with salt deposition in deep basin settings (see Roveri et al, 2014 for a detailed revision of this correlation).…”

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Deep-seated hydrocarbons in the seep “Brecciated Limestones” of the Maiella area (Adriatic foreland basin): Evaporitic sealing and oil re-mobilization effects linked to the drawdown of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Iadanza

Sampalmieri

Cipollari

2015

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…The importance of Upper Miocene pre-existing canyons for understanding the depositional and erosional processes active during the MSC has already been demonstrated in the Eastern Mediterranean (Bertoni and Cartwright, 2006). As described by these authors on the Levant area, some Oligo-Miocene submarine canyons acted as preferential sites of erosion in the earliest stages of the MSC.…”

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“…Levant margin (Druckman et al, 1995)). Until now, little attention has been paid to such incision events, their possible submarine origin and the possibility that they were reactivated as subaerial channels during subsequent lowstands such as the MSC drawdown (Druckman et al, 1995;Bertoni and Cartwright, 2006).…”

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Evidence for pre-Messinian submarine canyons on the Gulf of Lions slope (Western Mediterranean)

Lofi

Berné

2008

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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International audienceOn the Gulf of Lions margin, the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) event led to a significant and widespread erosion of the Miocene shelf and slope. It is thus difficult nowadays to restore the morphology of the margin at the beginning of the crisis, and to study the Middle-Upper Miocene series rarely preserved from erosion. In this study, thanks to the use of multichannel seismic reflection data from the Gulf of Lions western slope, it has been possible to image the Miocene slope deposits. Interpretation of the data reveals several diachronic sediment bodies just beneath the Miocene/Pliocene boundary. These bodies are related to slope erosional-depositional complexes, underlain by erosional unconformities outlined by seismic reflector truncations. They are V- or U-shaped in cross section. Over their mapped extent, these bodies are typically 8-12 km wide and incise up to 600 ms TWTT into the Miocene slope deposits. in plan view, they are roughly elongated NW-SE, perpendicularly to the present day shelf break, and they progressively migrate towards the South-East. We interpret these seismic bodies as buried Miocene submarine canyons pre-dating the dramatic drawdown related to the MSC. In this study we try to constrain their age, and we discuss the events that may be at their origin. We also discuss the long-term impact of these slope canyons on the evolution of the margin

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Controls on the basinwide architecture of late Miocene (Messinian) evaporites on the Levant margin (Eastern Mediterranean)

Cited by 113 publications

References 30 publications

Interactions between submarine channel systems and deformation in deepwater fold belts: Examples from the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean sea

Interactions between submarine channel systems and deformation in deepwater fold belts: Examples from the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean sea

Deep-seated hydrocarbons in the seep “Brecciated Limestones” of the Maiella area (Adriatic foreland basin): Evaporitic sealing and oil re-mobilization effects linked to the drawdown of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Evidence for pre-Messinian submarine canyons on the Gulf of Lions slope (Western Mediterranean)

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