Miocene paleoceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean area and carbonate production changes: A review

Cornacchia, Irene; Brandano, Marco; Agostini, Samuele

doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103785

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“…These results are also supported by the lithostratigraphic information reported by Höntzsch et al (2011) and Hussein (2019) for Egypt, by Schaub et al (1995), Buchbinder et al (2005) and Rosenfeld and Hirsch (2005) for Israel, by Farouk et al (2013) for Jordan, by Alsharhan and Nairn (1995) for the Arabian Peninsula, by Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for UAE, by Bernecker (2014) for Oman, by Sissakian (2013), Ameen-Lawa and Ghafur (2015), and Sadooni and Alsharhan (2019) for Iraq, by 2020) and Benedetti et al (2021) for Iran, by Akhtar and Butt (1999), Naveed and Chaudhry (2008), Afzal et al (2010), Özcan et al (2015), Ahmad et al (2016), Khan et al (2018) and Özcan et al (2018) for Pakistan, by Gaetani et al (1983), Less et al (2018) and Sarkar (2018) for India, and by Zhang et al (2013) for China. Other reviews of carbonate production in the Eurasian province during the Cenozoic also highlighted a remarkable abundance of LBF during the Paleocene, Eocene (where they dominates), Oligocene and early Miocene (Geel, 2000;Nebelsick et al, 2005;Scheibner and Speijer, 2008;Pomar et al, 2017;Boudagher-Fadel, 2018;Cornacchia et al, 2021). A similar pattern can be also observed in the American province (Aguilera et al, 2020).…”

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“…The Oligocene is the coldest period of the Paleogene (Zachos et al, 2001), and it is recognized worldwide as a period of great abundance of CC (Dishon et al, 2020). During the early Miocene CC are still very common, but during the middle Miocene, worldwide, RCA become significantly more abundant in tropical shelf at the expenses of CC (Esteban, 1979Halfar and Mutti, 2005;López-Pérez, 2005;Cornacchia et al, 2021;Bialik et al, 2022). CC abundance increases again in the late Miocene in the Western Tethys (Esteban, 1979Pomar and Hallock, 2007;Pomar et al, 2017;Cornacchia et al, 2021) and in the Plio-Pleistocene in the East Pacific and in the Caribbean (López-Pérez, 2005;Johnson et al, 2008).…”

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Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia

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Mariani³

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One hundred and forty-four sections of shallow-water carbonates, deposited between the Paleocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalaya, have been investigated to analyze the distribution of carbonate facies and carbonate producing organisms. Large benthic foraminifera resulted the volumetrically most important group of carbonate producers during the whole period, with a peak in abundance during the Eocene. Colonial corals are relatively abundant during the Paleocene and in the Miocene, their abundance peak during the Oligocene and has a minimum during the Eocene. Red calcareous algae have a similar pattern although their peak in abundance covers both the Oligocene and the Miocene. Green calcareous algae decrease from the Paleocene onward. Facies related to very shallow and/or restricted marine conditions peak during the Miocene and in particular during the Aquitanian. Both the pattern of large benthic foraminifera and of colonial corals seems to be related to temperatures, with warm periods favoring the former and cool periods the latter. Red calcareous algae display a pattern similar to that of colonial corals suggesting that the periods favorable for one group, on the large scale, are also favorable for the other. The progressive decrease of green calcareous algae could be tentatively related to a preservation bias connected to the transition from Paleogene assemblages that included presumably calcitic taxa of green algae and Neogene assemblages entirely constituted by aragonitic taxa with limited preservation potential. The Aquitanian peak in facies related to very shallow and/or restricted marine conditions is most likely connected to the progressive narrowing of the Tethys related to the collision between Arabia and Eurasia. These results denote an overall agreement between the abundance of the various types of shallow-water carbonate facies and large-scale environmental and geological processes, highlighting the potential for paleoenvironmental reconstruction locked in the shallow-water record.

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Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia

Coletti¹,

Commissario²,

Mariani³

et al. 2022

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“…The carbonate factories of the Miocene carbonate platforms record major palaeoceanographic changes occurring on global and regional scales during this key time-interval (Esteban 1996;Halfar and Mutti 2005;Pomar et al 2017;Brandano et al 2017;Michel et al 2018;Cornacchia et al 2021). The transition from the global warming of the early Miocene to the cold late Miocene "icehouse world" included a series of major changes in oceanographic, climatic and cryospheric systems (Flower and Kennett 1993;Flower 1999;Zachos et al 2001Zachos et al , 2008Holbourn et al 2004;Cornacchia et al 2021). In this time-interval, the Mediterranean area experienced important palaeogeographic changes related to the final phases of Alpine, Dinarid and Apennine orogeneses (Doglioni et al 1999).…”

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“…Shallow euphotic carbonate sedimentation during the Aquitanian is relatively restricted in the Mediterranean and is represented by facies of seagrass and z-coral mounds that develop both on ramps and in mixed siliciclastic-carbonate coastal systems (Esteban 1996;Bassi et al 2006;Cornacchia et al 2021). The aphotic zone facies are commonly characterized by spongolithic sediments (Brandano et al 2017).…”

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“…Since the late Tortonian and into the early Messinian, corals started to form spectacular reef complexes and fringing reefs in the Western and Central Mediterranean, with abundant Halimeda (J.V. Lamouroux, 1812) deposits in lagoon as well as fore reef environments (Rouchy et al 1986;Flügel 1988;Esteban 1996;Braga et al 1996;Martin et al 1997;Pomar et al 1996Pomar et al , 2012Pomar et al , 2017Bosellini et al 2001, Reuter et al 2017, with the exception of the small restricted sub-basins where red algae and small benthic foraminifera persisted (Cornacchia et al 2021). According to Pomar et al (2017), this sudden onset and expansion of the modern type of coral reefs coincides with a major shift toward light values in the global δ 13 C and with a sharp increase in latitudinal thermal gradients.…”

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Carbonate factory of Pietra di Finale coastal wedge (Miocene): the unusual abundance of stylasterids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

Brandano

Tomassetti

Puce

2022

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This work focuses on the carbonate factories constituting the Pietra di Finale Fm cropping out in the Ligurian Alps. This unit constituted a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic coastal wedge developed during the Middle Miocene. The carbonate factories characterizing the coastal wedge of the Pietra di Finale clearly differ from those of the coastal mixed systems and carbonate platforms developing during the Miocene elsewhere in the Mediterranean area. Here, in the Ligurian Alps, the euphotic carbonate factory does not show any evidence of seagrass meadows and coral bioconstructions. Zooxanthellate corals are present only as skeletal debris associated with abundant stylasterids. In the mesophotic and oligophotic zones, the typical oligophotic biota of red algae and larger benthic foraminifers are strongly reduced. The coastal wedge of the Pietra di Finale shows an unusual abundance of stylasterids, classically interpreted as deep-water biota. However, in this example, the absence of low-energy textures and other skeletal components suggest a shallow-water origin, probably in the eu- or mesophotic zone. The stylasterids colonized the hard substrates available and were successively removed and resedimented to form the skeletal fraction of the coastal wedge of the Pietra di Finale. The abundance of stylasterids is restricted to particular and limited situations in the Miocene of the Mediterranean, thus suggesting that their abnormal development is controlled by local rather than global factors.

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Rhodolith Beds in a Shifting World: A Palaeontological Perspective

Aguirre,

Braga

2024

Aquatic Conservation

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The occurrence of rhodolith beds in the stratigraphic record from the Cretaceous to the Pleistocene was analysed from published papers. Most data refer to low–mid latitude records of rhodolith beds described in the Tethyan–Paratethyan–Mediterranean domain. The first putative rhodolith beds are from Albian (uppermost Lower Cretaceous) deposits. These rhodolith beds are made up mostly of unattached loose branching corallines as well as of nodular structures. From the Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) to the Langhian (Middle Miocene), abundance of rhodolith beds shows a generally increasing fluctuating trend with two significant expansions in the Priabonian (late Eocene) and during the Aquitanian–Langhian (Early‐Middle Miocene). After the Langhian maximum, rhodolith beds sharply declined to a minimum in the Zanclean (Early Pliocene). During the Pleistocene, they recovered to values similar to those reached in the Langhian. The general increase in rhodolith beds up the Langhian maximum correlates well with global temperature and pCO2 declines and with an ocean pH increase. The tectonic activity leading to important palaeogeographic changes in the Tethyan–Parathetyan–Mediterranean realm might account for the Serravallian–Zanclean downfall of rhodolith‐dominated deposits. The Cretaceous–Pleistocene record of rhodolith beds shows that these ecosystems withstood successfully a highly changing world. The rapid acclimation of particular taxa to environmental changes and the variable reaction of taxa distributed at different water depths can be crucial to understand their success. In this regard, it would be interesting to analyse how different taxa in modern deep rhodolith beds respond to changing oceanic conditions.

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Miocene paleoceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean area and carbonate production changes: A review

Cited by 37 publications

References 125 publications

Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia

Paleocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories of the Southwestern and Western Central Asia

Carbonate factory of Pietra di Finale coastal wedge (Miocene): the unusual abundance of stylasterids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

Rhodolith Beds in a Shifting World: A Palaeontological Perspective

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