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MARINE GEOLOGY
卷 253, 期 3-4, 页码 73-81出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.04.010
关键词
Messinian; Mediterranean sea; modelling; evaporite halite
资金
- Netherlands Geosciences Foundation (ALW)
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
We use simple quantitative analyses to evaluate controversial water level scenarios for the Mediterranean Lower Evaporites of the Messinian salinity crisis. Our results indicate that a shallow-water scenario for the Lower Gypsum units - with Mediterranean water level lower than the sill at Gibraltar - Would imply unrealistic salt thicknesses on the order of 3 km. Some outflow to the open ocean must have persisted, implying that the Mediterranean was a deep-water basin during Lower Gypsum formation. Since glacio-eustatic fluctuations do not seem to have had a major influence on Lower Gypsum deposits, Mediterranean water level was even substantially higher than the Gibraltar sill. Our analyses furthermore show that precessional changes in the freshwater budget may explain the observed cyclic lithological changes of gypsum and non-evaporitic sediments. Potential precipitation of gypsum in the deep Mediterranean basins would have critically depended on the availability of oxygen and thus on the stratification of the water column. Finally, our results indicate that the deep Mediterranean halite units could have been deposited under shallow conditions, assuming that they correspond to the similar to 70 kyr time interval between glacials TG12 and TG14, when Mediterranean outflow to the Atlantic was blocked. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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