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Uncovering the Mediterranean Salt Giant (MEDSALT) - Scientific Networking as Incubator of Cross-disciplinary Research in Earth Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2019

Angelo Camerlenghi  and
Vanni Aloisi
Angelo Camerlenghi
Affiliation:
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Trieste, Italy. Email: acamerlenghi@inogs.it
Vanni Aloisi
Affiliation:
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. Email: aloisi@ipgp.fr
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Abstract

About 6 million years ago, the Mediterranean basin was the location of one of the most extraordinary events in the recent geological history of the Earth: the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Restriction of the seawater exchange between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean led to excess evaporation and deposition on the bottom of the deep Mediterranean basins of a 1.5 km-thick salt layer. Research on this event initiated a long-term scientific controversy. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Networks were identified as the most appropriate tools to address and solve the controversy using a highly cross-disciplinary approach.

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AE 2018 Annual Conference Lectures
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European Review , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 40 - 61
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© Academia Europaea 2019 

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