Understanding the Mediterranean Salinity Crisis

Project Information

SALTGIANT

Grant agreement ID: 765256

DOI 10.3030/765256

Project closed

EC signature date 10 August 2017

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 3 893 087,88

EU contribution € 3 893 087,88

Coordinated by

INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (18)

Progress report

1st years progress report

Model of margin tectonic evolution

Updated model for the tectonic evolution of Mediterranean continental margins during the formation of the MSG

Microbial model for fluid-incl. survival

Qualitative understanding of survival of microorganisms in halite fluid inclusions

Distribution of Fossil Fuel Rents in Small Economies and Resources Windfalls - Growth, Inequality and Technology Issues

A report containing the main model simulation results and policy recommendations

Marginal basins hydrology model

Quantitative model explaining the hydrology of marginal basins

Geological models of salt evolution

Geological models of evolution of salt structures in response to sedimentary load gravity and overpressure

Supervisory Board of the network

Supervisory Board of the networkthere will be also Advisory Board that will prepare Report on the conclusions of the SALTGIANT activites

Lago-Mare model

Updated conceptual model for the formation of the LagoMare sedimentary unit

Estimate of sub-salt overpressure

Estimates of the formationfluid overpressure under the MSG

Model of Gibraltar MSG water fluxes

Updated model of the timeevolution of hydrologic fluxes across the Strait of Gibraltar during the formation of the MSG

Model of Balearic Basin architecture

Updated model of the architecture and evolution of the Balearic basin

Understanding of salt deformation

New modelbase guidelines to help interpret salt deformation

"Understanding of ""sour gas"" production"

Mechanistic understanding of the microbial production of H2S sour gas via the reduction on mineral gypsum

Hydochem.-Biogeochem. MSG model

Quantitative hydrochemical and biogeochemical model of the formation of the MSG

Model of salt giant early deformation

New model of the early deformation of the MSG in the Levantine basin

Model of Caltaniss. Basin architecture

Updated model of the architecture and evolution of the Caltanissetta basin Sicily

History of MSG science monograph

Monograph on the history of the discovery of the MSG

Phylogeny of gypsum filamentous fossils

Recognition of the phylogenetic affiliation of filamentous gypsumrelated microbes

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website

Release of the project website

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

For the Benefit of All Men : Oceanography and Franco‐American Scientific Diplomacy in the Cold War, 1958–1970**

Author(s): Beatriz Martínez‐Rius
Published in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Issue 43/4, 2020, Page(s) 581-605, ISSN 0170-6233
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/bewi.202000015

Onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Sedimentological, petrographic and geochemical characterization of the pre-salt sediments from a new core (Caltanissetta Basin, Sicily)

Author(s): Athina Tzevahirtzian, Antonio Caruso, Giovanna Scopelliti, François Baudin, Marie-Madeleine Blanc-Valleron
Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2022, ISSN 0264-8172
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105686

Messinian bottom-grown selenitic gypsum: An archive of microbial life

Author(s): Marcello Natalicchio, Daniel Birgel, Francesco Dela Pierre, Simone Ziegenbalg, Lars Hoffmann-Sell, Susanne Gier, Jörn Peckmann
Published in: Geobiology, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 3-21, ISSN 1472-4669
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12464

The Messinian Salinity Crisis deposits in the Balearic Promontory: An undeformed analog of the MSC Sicilian basins??

Author(s): Fadl Raad, Johanna Lofi, Agnès Maillard, Athina Tzevahirtzian, Antonio Caruso
Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020, Page(s) 104777, ISSN 0264-8172
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104777

Messinian West Alboran Sea record in the proximity of Gibraltar: Early signs of Atlantic-Mediterranean gateway restriction

Author(s): Francesca Bulian, Francisco J. Sierro, Santiago Ledesma, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, Maria-Angela Bassetti
Published in: Marine Geology, Issue 434, 2021, Page(s) 106430, ISSN 0025-3227
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106430

Flexural-isostatic reconstruction of the Western Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Implications for water level and basin connectivity

Author(s): Hanneke Heida, Fadl Raad, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Ivone Jiménez-Munt, Agnès Maillard, Johanna Lofi
Published in: Basin research, 2021, ISSN 0950-091x
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12610

The Messinian Salinity Crisis as a trigger for high pore pressure development in the Western Mediterranean

Author(s): Michael S. Dale, Héctor Marín‐Moreno, Ismael Himar Falcon‐Suarez, Carlos Grattoni, Jonathan M. Bull, Lisa C. McNeill
Published in: Basin Research, 2021, ISSN 0950-091X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12554

High Mediterranean water-level during the Lago-Mare phase of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: insights from the Sr isotope records of Spanish marginal basins (SE Spain)

Author(s): F. Andreetto, K. Matsubara, C.J. Beets, A.R. Fortuin, R. Flecker, W. Krijgsman
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Issue 562, 2021, Page(s) 110139, ISSN 0031-0182
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110139