Impact of Atlantic Waters in the Alboran Basin at the end ofthe Messinian Salinity Crisis: the Zanclean Flooding

• Ferran Estrada ^[1] ; Gemma Ercilla ^[1] ; Christian Gorini ^[4] ; Belén Alonso ^[1] ; Juan Tomás Vázquez ^[2] ; Andrés Maldonado ^[5] ; Abdellah Ammar ^[3]
  1. [1] Instituto de Ciencias del Mar

     Instituto de Ciencias del Mar

     Barcelona, España

     
  2. [2] Instituto Español de Oceanografía

     Instituto Español de Oceanografía

     Madrid, España

     
  3. [3] Mohammed V University

     Mohammed V University

     Marruecos

     
  4. [4] Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris
  5. [5] Instituto Andaluz de Geología Mediterránea, C.S.I.C./Universidad de Granada

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• Localización: Geotemas (Madrid), ISSN 1576-5172, Nº. 11, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Deep-Water Circulation: Processes & Products. International Congress. Baitona, Pontevedra, Spain. 16 & 17 June 2010), págs. 41-42
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  • The restoration of the Atlantic/Mediterranean connection through the Gibraltar Strait took place at the end of Messinian Salinity Crisis and produced a huge flooding in a very short period of time, known as the Zanclean flooding. This catastrophic event produced significant erosion along the Alboran Basin that can be tracked eastward from the Gibraltar Strait till the transition to the Algero-Balear Basin. The interaction of the Atlantic water masses with the complex Messinian physiography sculpted an erosive corridor whose morphological characteristics vary along its pathway. At present-day, this erosive corridor locally appears strongly deformed by Plio-Pleistocene tectonics and mud diapirism.