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 The Lower Evaporites of the Vena del Gesso (Northern Apennines, Italy) - photo by M. Roveri, 2003 for contact : info@messinianonline.it MSC mailing list |
A website dedicated to the exploration of the great environmental changes experienced by the whole Mediterranean area about 6 millions years ago What caused the dramatic, sudden and synchronous palaeogeographic changes recorded by sedimentary rocks that transformed the Mediterranean into the largest saline basin in the Earth's history? What the impact on Mediterranean marine and terrestrial ecosystems? What the consequences on the Atlantic Ocean circulation pattern? Could it happen again in the future? Since more than 30 years the international scientific community is trying to solve one of the most intriguing problems in the history of natural sciences |
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Forty years after the first deep Mediterranean cores which revealed a unknown Messinian world, now it's time that the common dream of a large scientific community comes true and that the deep-sea record of Messinian events can be fully recovered and understood |
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MagellanPlus Workshop Deep-sea Record of Mediterranean Messinian Events (DREAM) preliminary program |
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 RCMNS 14th Congress Istanbul, Turkey, 8-12 September 2013 Neogene to Quaternary Geological Evolution of Mediterranean, Paratethys and Black Sea
Paratethys-Mediterranean interactions: environmental crises during the Neogene
http://www.ciesm.org/marine/congresses/index.htm New consensus on Messinian Salinity Crisis CIESM Workshop 331 21 February 2008, CIESM News 13th Congress RCMNS - Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean area from 23Ma to the present info: fabrizio.lirer@iamc.cnr.it Alba (Piedmont, Italy), October 10th-11th 2008 Dawn and sunset of the Messinian Crisis May 5-6, 2008, at Lyon (France) The 2nd Colloquium on "The Messinian salinity crisis revisited" will be held at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra of the University of Parma (Italy) the 7th-9th September 2006. Detailed programme Abstract Volume EGU 2006 Messinian Session "The Messinian desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea, its causes, phenomena and consequences" September 22, 2005 May 18-19, 2005 Meeting on:
New spaces for Messinian debate Why a Messinian website? I think the answer is easy. In the last decades, hundreds of Earth and Life scientists have been trying to shed light on the set of dramatic palaeogeographic changes that affected the Mediterranean area at the end of the Miocene. I believe that a website open to the free contribute of all Messinian scientist would represent a valuable chance to create a permanent, up to date and stimulating network of scientific knowledge, personal relationships and feedbacks, from which new collaborations, ideas and project proposals would hopefully arise. Of course this electronic space will survive and grow only through the active collaboration of the widest community. To make communications easier and faster, the website will be provided soon with dynamic and interactive pages. For this reason I invite Messinian people to send their comments about this initiative as well as any technical suggestions, information or document that would improve what I hope is going to become our website.
MSC Gallery - The Miocene/Pliocene boundary in the Conero section (Marche, Central Italy). The more resistant calcarenitic body prolonging into the Adriatic Sea is the topmost Messinian deposit. Photo by M. Roveri, 2004 |
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