Astrobiochronology of Late Neogene deposits near the Strait of Gibraltar (SW Spain). Implications for the tectonic control of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Abstract

[EN]The main objective of this work is to explore the Guadalquivir basin and the Gulf of Cadiz to obtain continuous sediment records for the interval of the Messinian Salinity Crisis on the Atlantic side of the Iberian peninsula so as to analyse the possible paleoenvironmental, tectonic or paleoclimatic changes in a region which was only a few kms away from the Mediterranean coasts during this time period.