01.07.2015 | Thematic Issue
Karst and karst groundwater resources in the Mediterranean
Erschienen in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Ausgabe 1/2015
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Abstract
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the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) at the end of the Miocene, which caused rivers to incise deep valleys to reach the remaining sea, 1500–2500 m below the present sea level;
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cold periods during the Quaternary that caused weathering of the epikarst, even its destruction, which led to the development of a thick scree cover above an elevation of 1200–1500 m; and
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post-Miocene tectonics that generated extensional horst and graben structures, favored hydrothermalism and deep CO2 flux, and caused continental sediments to fill in large basins in compressional environments.