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Messinian online living in an evaporitic world
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Messinian Gallery
The Miocene/Pliocene boundary and Lower Pliocene Trubi-like mudstones in the Rio Nasseto section (eastern Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy)
Photo by M. Roveri, 2001
The Upper Messinian to Lower Pliocene succession of the Trave section (M. Conero, Marche, Central Adriatic Sea). Note the more resistant calcarenitic body (the "Trave") representing the topmost deposit of the local Lago Mare succession. The transition to Lower Pliocene turbiditic sandstone and mudstones is marked by a reddish, strongly bioturbated and more cemented horizon. A detailed study of this section is currently being carried out within the Italian ME.LA project.
Photo by M. Roveri, 2004.