Description
Studying the Messinian Salinity Crisis on the Balearic promontory and using its markers to assess post-crisis vertical movement and the reactivation of the region.
1) Fine-scale continuous mapping of evaporites from land to the deep basin in order to answer the following question: What is the spatial-temporal variability of evaporites of the Balearic Promontory (evaporites on land, very thin or thick evaporates at sea)?
2) Using the Messinian as a marker of syn- and post-MSC deformations; isolating recent movements from previous deformations and quantifying them in order to reproduce the paleo-bathymetry and paleo-connections during the crisis. Were the evaporites in shallow basins continuous with evaporites in deeper basins before the recent deformations?
The related project is 'Action Marges', Mediterranean study site.
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