On the late Miocene closure of the Mediterranean-Atlantic gateway through the Guadix Basin (Southern Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 291, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 167-179

  Husing S K ^a   Oms, O ^b   Agusti J ^c   Garces M ^d   Kouwenhoven, T J ^e   Krijgsman, W ^a   Zachariasse, W J ^e  

^a Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Escola Industrial 23   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Betic corridor; Geochronology; Guadix basin; Late Miocene; Marine basin; Spain

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONNECTIVITY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HIATUS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESSINIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TORTONIAN;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; GUADIX BASIN; SPAIN;

FORAMINIFERA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PARAETHOMYS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 78449239565     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Agustí, J., Carbrera, L., Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., Oms, O., Pares, J.M., 2001. A calibrated mammal scale for the Neogene of Western Europe. State of the Art: Earth Science Reviews 52, 247-260.
2. Agustí, J., Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., 2006. Evidence for African-Iberian exchange during the Messinian in the Spanish mammalian record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 238, 5-14.
3. Benson, R.H., Rakic-El Bied, K., Bonaduce, G., 1991. An important current reversal (influx) in the Rifian corridor (Morocco) at the Tortonian-Messinian boundary: The end of the Tethys Ocean. Paleoceanography 6, 164-192.
4. Betzler, C., Braga, J.C., Martín, J.M., Sánchez-Almazo, I.M., Lindhorst, S., 2006. Closure of a seaway: Stratigraphic record and facies (Guadix basin, Southern Spain). Int. J. Earth Sci (Geol. Rundschau) 95, 903-910.
5. Blanc, P.-L., 2002. The opening of the Plio-Quaternary Gibraltar Strait: Assessing the size of a cataclysm. Geodinamica Acta 15, 303-317.
6. Braga, J.C., Martin, J.M., 1996. Geometries of reef advance in response to relative sealevel changes in a Messinian (uppermost Miocene) fringing reef (Cariatiz reef, Sorbas Basin, SE Spain). Sedimentary Geology 107, 61-81.
7. Comas, M., Garcia-Duenas, V., Jurado, M.J., 1992. Neogene Tectonic evolution of the Alboran Sea from MCS data. Geo-Marine Letters 12, 157-164.
8. 39Ar in the Melilla-Nador Basin (Morocco). Sedimentary Geology 151, 127-147.
9. Cramp, A., O'Sullivan, G., 1999. Neogene sapropels in the Mediterranean: A review. Marine Geology 153, 11-28.
10. de Nooijer, L.J., Duijnstee, I.A.P., Bergmann, M.J.N., van der Zwaan, G.J., 2008. The ecology of benthic foraminifera across the Frisian Front, southern North Sea. Eastuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 78, 715-726.
11. Duggen, S., Hoernle, K., Van den Bogaard, P., Rupke, L., Morgan, J.P., 2003. Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature 422, 602-606.
12. Eberwein, A., Mackensen, A., 2006. Regional primary productivity differences off Morocco (NW Africa) recorded by modern benthic foraminifera and their stable carbon isotope composition. Deep-Sea Research I 53, 1379-1405.
13. Fernández, J., Guerra-Merchán, A., 1996. A coarsening-upward megasequence generated by a Gilbert-type fan-delta in a tectonically controlled context (Upper Miocene, Guadix-Baza Basin, Betic Cordillera, southern Spain). Sedimentary Geology 105, 191-202.
14. Fernandez, J., Soria, J.M., Viseras, C., 1996. Stratigraphic architecture of Neogene basins in the central section of the Betic Cordillera (Spain): Tectonic control and base level changes. In: Friend, P.F., Dabrio, C.J. (Eds.), Tertiary Basins in Spain: The Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 353-365.
15. Garcés, M., Agustí, J., Parés, J.M., 1997. Late Pliocene continentalmagnetochronology in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Betic Ranges, Spain). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146, 677-687.
16. Garcés, M., Krijgsman, W., Agustí, J., 1998. Chronology of the late Turolian deposits of the Fortuna basin (SE Spain): Implications for the Messinian evolution of the eastern Betics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 163, 69-81.
17. Garcés,M., Krijgsman,W., Agustí, J., 2001. Chronostratigraphic framework and evolution of the Fortuna basin (Eastern Betics) since the LateMiocene. Basin Research 13, 199-216.
18. Gilbert, L., Scott, G., Martin, R., Gilbert, J., 2007. The Early to Middle Pliocene boundary in the Baza Basin (Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 2067-2089.
19. Gutscher, M.-A., Malod, J., Rehault, J.-P., Contrucci, I., Klingelhoefer, F., Mendes-Victor, L., Spakman, W., 2002. Evidence for active subduction beneath Gibraltar. Geology 30, 1071-1074.
20. Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Lourens, L.J., Santarelli, A., Zachariasse, W.J., 1995. Extending the astronomical (polarity) time scale into the Miocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 136, 495-510.
21. Hohenegger, J., 2005. Estimation of environmental paleogradient values based on presence/absence data: A case study using benthic foraminifera for paleodepth estimation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 217, 115-130.
22. Hsü, K.J., Montadert, L., Bernouilli, D., Cita, M.B., Erikson, A., Garrison, R.E., Kidd, R.B., Melieres, F., Muller, C., Wright, R., 1978. History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis. Nature 267, 399-403.
23. Hsü, K.J., Ryan, W.B.F., Cita, M.B., 1973. Late Miocene desiccation of the Mediterranean. Nature 242, 240-244.
24. Hüsing, S.K., Zachariasse, W.J., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Krijgsman, W., Inceöz, M., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Kroh, A., 2009a. Oligocene-Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia Turkey: Constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway, Collision and Collapse at the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia Subduction Zone. Geological Society London, Special Publication 311, 107-132.
25. Hüsing, S.K., Kuiper, K.F., Link, W., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W., 2009b. The upper Tortonian-lower Messinian at Monte dei Corvi (Northern Apennines, Italy): Completing a Mediterranean reference section for the Tortonian Stage. Earth Planet. Sc. Lett. 282, 140-157.
26. Hüsing, S.K., Dekkers, M.J., Franke, C., Krijgsman, W., 2009c. The Tortonian reference section at Monte dei Corvi (Italy): Evidence for early remanence acquisition in greigite-bearing sediments. Geophys. J. Int. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04301.x.
27. Kirschvink, J.L., 1980. The least-square line and plane and the analysis of paleomagnetic data. Geophys. J. Int. 62, 699-718.
28. Köhler, C.M., Heslop, D., Dekkers, M.J., Krijgsman, W., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., von Dobeneck, T., 2008. Tracking provenance change during the late Miocene in the Eastern Mediterranean using geochemical and environmental magentic parameters. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. doi:10.1029/2008GC002127.
29. Koho, K.A., García, R., de Stigter, H.C., Epping, E., Koning, E., Kouwenhoven, T.J., van der Zwaan, G.J., 2008. Sedimentary labile organic carbon and porewaster redox control on specied distribution of benthic foraminifera: A case study fromLisbon-Setúbal Canyon (southern Portugal). Progress in Oceanography 79, 55-82.
30. Kouwenhoven, T.J., Hilgen, F.J., van der Zwaan, G.J., 2003. Late Tortonian-early Messinian stepwise disruption of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connections: Constraints from benthic foraminiferal and geochemical data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 198, 303-319.
31. Kouwenhoven, T.J., Morigi, C., Negri, A., Giunta, S., Krijgsman, W., Rouchy, J.-M., 2006. Paleoenvironmental evolution of the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian: Constraints from integrated micorfossil data of the Pissouri Basin (Cyprus). Marine Micropaleontology 60, 17-44.
32. Krijgsman, W., Fortuin, A.R., Hilgen, F.J., Sierro, F.J., 2001. Astrochronology for the Messinian Sorbas basin (SE Spain) and orbital (precessional) forcing for evaporite cyclicity. Sedimentary Geology 140, 43-60.
33. Krijgsman, W., Garcés, M., 2004. Palaeomagnetic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Gibraltar Arc. Terra Nova 16, 281-287.
34. Krijgsman, W., Garcés, M., Agustí, J., Raffi, I., Taberner, C., Zachariasse, W.J., 2000. The 'Tortonian salinity crisis' of the eastern Betics (Spain). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 181, 497-511.
35. Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Langereis, C.G., Santarelli, A., Zachariasse, W.J., 1995. Late Miocene magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy in the Mediterranean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 136, 475-494.
36. Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Raffi, I., Sierro, F.J., Wilson, D., 1999a. Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature 400, 652-655.
37. Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Zachariasse, W.J., Boccaletti, M., Moratti, G., Gelati, R., Iaccarino, S., Papani, G., Villa, G., 1999b. Late Neogene evolution of the Taza-Guercif Basin (Rifian Corridor, Morocco) and implications for the Messinian salinity crisis. Marine Geology 153, 147-160.
38. Krijgsman, W., Leewis, M.E., Garcés, M., Kouwenhoven, T.J., Kuiper, K.F., Sierro, F.J., 2006. Tectonic control for evaporite formation in the Eastern Betics (Tortonian; Spain). Sedimentary Geology 188-189, 155-170.
39. Krijgsman, W., Meijer, P.T., 2008. Depositional environments of the Mediterranean "Lower Evaporites" of the Messinian salinity crisis: Constraints from quantative analyses. Mar. Geol. 253, 73-81.
40. Lourens, L.J., Hilgen, F.J., Shackleton, N.J., Laskar, J., Wilson, D., 2004. The Neogene period. In: Smith, A.G. (Ed.), A Geological Time Scale 2004. Cambridge University Press, pp. 409-440.
41. Lutze, G.F., Coulbourn, W.T., 1984. Recent benthic foraminifera from the continental margin of northwest Africa: Community structure and distribution. Marine Micropaleontology 8, 361-401.
42. Martin, J.M., Braga, J.C., 1994. Messinian events in the Sorbas Basin in southeastern Spain and their implications in the recent history of the Mediterranean. Sedimentary Geology 90, 257-268.
43. Martin, J.M., Braga, J.C., Betzler, C., 2001. The Messinian Guadalhorce Corridor; the last northern, Atlantic-Mediterranean gateway. Terra Nova 13, 418-424.
44. Mattei, J.-L., Cifelli, F., Martin Roja, I., Crespo Blanc, A., Comas,M., Facenna, C., Porreca, M., 2006. Neogene tectonic evolution of the Gibraltar Arc: New paleomagnetic constraints form the Betic chain. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 250, 522-540.
45. Murray, J.W., 2003. An illustrated guide to the benthic foraminifera of the Hebridean shelf, west of Scotland, with notes on their mode of life. Palaeontologia Electronica 5.
46. Oms, O., Dinarès-Turell, J., Agustí, J., Parés, J.M., 1999. Refinements pf the European mammal biochronology from the magnetic polarity record of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Zujar section, Guadix-Baza basin, SE Spain. Quaternary Science Reviews 51, 94-103.
47. Roberts, A.P., 1995. Magnetic properties of sedimentary greigite (Fe3S4). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 134, 227-236.
48. Roberts, A.P., Turner, G.M., 1993. Diagenetic formation of ferrimagentic iron sulphide minerals in rapidly deposited marine sediments, South Island, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 115, 257-273.
49. Roveri, M., Manzi, V., Lugli, S., Schreiber, B.C., Caruso, A., Rouchy, J.-M., Iaccarino, S., Gennari, R., Vitale, F.P., 2006. Clastic vs. primary precipitated evaporites in the Messinian Sicilian basins. Acta Naturalia de L'Ateneo Parmense 42, 125-199.
50. Sanz De Galdeano, C., Vera, J.A., 1992. Stratigraphic record and palaeogeographical context of the Neogene basin in the Betic Cordillera, Spain. Basin Research 4, 21-36.
51. Schmiedl, G., Mackensen, A., Müller, P.J., 1997. Recent benthic foraminifera from the eastern South Atlantic Ocean: Dependence on food supply and water masses. Marine Micropaleontology 32, 249-287.
52. Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Kouwenhoven, T.J., Jorissen, F.J., Shackleton, N.J., van der Zwaan, G.J., 2000. Benthic foraminifera as indicators of changing Mediterranean-Atlantic water exchange in the late Miocene. Marine Geology 163, 387-407.
53. Sgarrella, F., Moncharmont Zei, M., 1993. Benthic foraminifera of the Gulf of Naples (Italy): Systematics and autecology. Bolletino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 32, 145-264.
54. Sgarrella, F., Sprovieri, R., Di Stefano, E., Caruso, A., Sprovieri, M., Bonaduce, G., 1999. The Capo Rossello bore-hole (Agrigento, Sicily): Cyclostratigraphic and paleoceanographic reconstructions from quantative analyses of the Zanclean foraminiferal assemblages. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia y Stratigrafia 105, 303-322.
55. Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A., Frances, G., Vazquez, A., Utrilla, R., Zamarreno, I., Erlenkeuser, H., Barcena, M.A., 2003. Orbitally controlled oscillations in planktonic communities and cyclic changes in western Mediterranean hydrography during the Messinian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 190, 289-316.
56. Sierro, F.J., Gonzalez Delgado, J.A., Dabrio, C.J., Flores, J.A., Civis, J., 1996. Late Neogene depositional sequences in the foreland basin of Guadalquivir (SW Spain). In: Friend, P.F., Dabrio, C.J. (Eds.), Tertiary basins of Spain: The stratigraphic record of crustal kinematics, S4, pp. 339-345.
57. Soria, J.M., Fernandez, J., Viseras, C., 1999. Late Miocene stratigraphy and paleogeographic evolution of the intramontane Guadix Basin Central Betic Cordillera, Spain): Implications for an Atlantic-Mediterranean connection. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 151, 255-266.
58. Soria, J.M., Ruiz Bustos, A., 1992. Nuevos datos sobre la edad del inicio de la sedimentacion continental en la Cuenca de Guadix. Cordillera Betica Geogaceta 11, 92-94.
59. Soria, J.M., Viseras, C., Fernandez, J., 1998. Late Miocene-Pleistocene tectonosedimentary evolution and subsidence history of the central Betic Cordillera (Spain): A case study in the Guadix intermontane basin. Geological Magazine 135, 565-574.
60. Sprovieri, M., Bellanca, A., Neri, R., Mazzola, S., Bonanno, A., Patti, B., Sorgente, R., 1999. Astronomical calibration of late Miocene stratigraphic events and analysis of precessionally driven paleoceanographic changes in the Mediterranean basin. Memorie della Societa Geologica Italiana 54, 7-24.
61. Sprovieri, R., Di Stefano, E., Sprovieri, M., 1996. High resolution chronology for late Miocene Mediterranean stratigraphic events. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia y Stratigrafia 102, 77-104.
62. Steckler, M.S., Watts, A.B., 1978. Subsidence of the Atlantic-type continental margin off New York. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 41, 1-13.
63. Tric, E., Laj, C., Jehanno, C., Valte, J.-P., Kissel, C., Mazaud, A., Iaccarino, S., 1991. High resolution record of the upper Olduvai transition from Po Valley (Italy) sediments: Support for dipolar transition geometry? Physics of Earth and Planetary Interioirs 65, 319-336.
64. van Assen, E., Kuiper, K.F., Barhoun, N., Krijgsman, W., Sierro, F.J., 2006. Messinian astrochronology of the Melilla Basin: Stepwise restriction of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connection through Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 238, 15-31.
65. Van der Zwaan, G.J., Jorissen, F.J., Stigter, H.C., 1990. The depth dependency of planktonic/benthic foraminiferal ratios: Constrains and applications. Marine Geology 95, 1-16.
66. van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Langereis, C.G., Meulenkamp, J.E., 2005. Revision of the timing, magnitude and distribution of Neogene rotations in the western Aegean region. Tectonophysics 369, 1-34.
67. Vasiliev, I., Dekkers, M.J., Krijgsman, W., Franke, C., Langereis, C.G., Mullender, T.A.T., 2007. Early diagenetic greigite as a recorder of the palaeomagnetic signal in Miocene-Pliocene sedimentary rocks of the Carpathian foredeep (Romania). Geophysical Journal International. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03560.x.
68. Wijermars, R., 1988. Neogene tectonics in the Western Mediterranean may have caused the Messinian Salinity Crisis and an associated glacial event. Tectonophysics 148, 211-219.
69. Zijderveld, J.D.A., 1967. A.C. demagnetization of rocks: Analysis of results. In: Runcon, S. K. (Ed.), Developments in Solid Earth Geosciences Methods in Paleomagnetism. Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam.