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La crisis de salinidad del Messiniense

Authors: Soria Mingorance, Jesús Miguel;

La crisis de salinidad del Messiniense

Abstract

La crisis de salinidad del Messiniense es un acontecimiento mayor en la evolución del Mediterráneo que se caracteriza por la precipitación de evaporitas tanto en sus llanuras abisales como en las cuencas marginales. Las evaporitas están compuestas principalmente por yeso, anhidrita y halita, indicando unas condiciones de depósito marinas extremadamente someras. A raíz del hallazgo de evaporitas en las llanuras abisales se derivó la hipótesis de cuenca profunda desecada, según la cual durante el Messiniense se produjo una caída del nivel del mar de más de 1500 metros. Como consecuencia de tal descenso del nivel del mar en el Mediterráneo se excavaron profundos cañones erosivos en sus márgenes, en coincidencia con los principales sistemas de drenaje (ríos Ródano y Nilo). La crisis de salinidad tuvo su origen por el cierre de las vías marinas (pasillos Bético y Rifeño) que comunicaban el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico. La edad del inicio de la crisis, cuando comienza la precipitación de las evaporitas, se ha establecido en torno a los 5.9 millones de años. La crisis termina definitivamente con la reinundación del Mediterráneo a la base del Plioceno, cuya causa fue la apertura de una nueva vía marina (el Estrecho de Gibraltar) que no existía ni durante ni anteriormente a la crisis de salinidad.

The Messinian salinity crisis is a major event during the Mediterranean evolution, and is characterised by evaporite precipitation, both in the abyssal Mediterramean plains as well as in the marginal basins. The evaporites are mainly composed of gypsum, anhydrite and halite, reflecting an extremely shallow-marine depositional context. The discovery of evaporites in the abyssal plains gave way to the proposal of the desiccated deep basin hypothesis, which considers a sea-level fall, as least of 1500 metres, during the Messinian. As a consequence of such a sea-level fall in the Mediterranean, deep erosional canyon were carved in its margins, coinciding with the main drainage systems (Rône and Nyle rivers). The origin of the salinity crisis was the clossure of the seaways (Betic and Rif corridors) connecting the Atlantic and Mediterranean domains. The age of the onset of the crisis, when the first evaporites precipitated, has been established at ca. 5.9 Ma. The crisis ended definitively when the Mediterranean was re-flooded at the base of Pliocene. The cause of this event was the opening of a new seaway (Gibraltar Strait), which was originated after the salinity crisis.

Este trabajo se ha realizado en el marco de los proyectos de investigación BTE2003-05047 y CGL2007-65832.

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Messinian, Messiniense, Estratigrafía, Crisis de salinidad, Salinity crisis, Mediterranean, Mediterráneo, Paleontología

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