Geochemical constraints on the provenance and depositional environment of the Messinian sediments, onshore Nile Delta, Egypt: Implications for the late Miocene paleogeography of the Mediterranean

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 215-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Leila ◽  
Andrea Moscariello ◽  
Branimir Šegvić
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Depositional Environment ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Geochemical Constraints

The Control of Pollution from River Discharges in the Mediterranean

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 229-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalil H. Mancy
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Marine Management ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
Management Schemes ◽  
The Mediterranean

The pollution burden of river discharges in the Mediterranean far exceeds all other sources, e.g. land based sources. The main contributors are the Rhone, Po and Ebro. Contributions from the River Nile are expected to be much less than those from rivers in the European continent. Recent Nile management schemes and irrigation projects in Egypt are posing direct impacts on the Mediterranean. This includes the erosion of the Nile Delta and off-shore pollution due to wastewater discharges. In view of the prevailing circulation patterns in the Mediterranean, these impacts are dominant in the South Levantin region. Cutrent practices of river management do not necessarily include the protection of marine resources. Similarly, sea protection programs do not include pollution from sources in the river basin. Marine management programs are largely concerned with pollution loads at the points of river discharge. In the case of a land-locked sea, such as the Mediterranean, it is particularly important to integrate river basin management schemes in the sea protection program. Under a suitable management plan, it could be possible to determine main sources of sea pollution within the river basin. This should serve as the basis for the implementation of control measures, since the problem is not exclusively within the river basin.

Late Miocene Desiccation of the Mediterranean

Nature ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 242 (5395) ◽  
pp. 240-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. HSÜ ◽  
W. B. F. RYAN ◽  
M. B. CITA
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Palynological profile and depositional environment of the Ishim formation (upper Miocene) in Tobol-Ishim interfluve, Western Siberia

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
O. B. Kuzmina ◽  
I. V. Khazina ◽  
P. V. Smirnov ◽  
A. O. Konstantinov ◽  
A. R. Agatova
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Organic Substance ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Depositional Environment ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Quaternary Sediments ◽  
Upper Miocene ◽  
Neogene Sediments ◽  
First Time

For the first time some outcrops of the Upper Miocene Ishim Formation on the south of Tyumen Area near Pyatkovo, Masali and Bigila villages are studied by palynological method in detail. A series of mineralogical analyzes of these sediments and radiocarbon analysis of the Quaternary sediments overlying the Ishim Formation are done. Four palynocomplexes (PC) are established in the Ishim Formation: PC1 with Botryococcus; PC2 with Botryococcus, Sigmopollis; PC3 with Alnus, Polypodiaceae, Botryococcus, Sigmopollis; PC4 with Betula, Alnus, Corylus. The layers with PC1, PC2 и PC3 are traced in two outcrops near Masali and Bigila Villages. PC4 is revealed from the sands and aleuropelits of the outcrop near Pyatkovo Village, it is characterized by a significant content of diverse pollen of temperate termophylic broad-leafed taxa and by the presence of rare typical Miocene elements (Таxodiaceae, Nyssa, Tsuga). The PC3 and PC4 are compared with the complexes well known from the Neogene sediments of Western Siberia. PC5 with Betula, Herbae, Fungi is revealed from the bedded silts overlying the Ishim Formation in Masali outcrop. Previously, these sediments were attributed to the Late Miocene Pavlodar Formation. The composition and the structure of PC5 allowed making an assumption about Quaternary age of the enclosing sediments. Radiocarbon analysis of the organic substance from the silts showed, that these sediments were accumulated in the Late Pleistocene (Sartan Ice Age). For the first time the information about microphytoplankton (Botryococcus, Pediastrum, Zygnemataceae, Sigmopollis) and other nonpollen palynomorphs, contained in Ishim Formation (Upper Miocene) and in Pleistocene sediments, is given. On palynological data, some stages of development of the Late Miocene Ishim Basin and the type of vegetation surrounding this basin are considered. The depositional environment of Pleistocene sediments (Masali outcrop) is reconstructed.

scholarly journals Quantifying the Mediterranean freshwater budget throughout the late Miocene: New implications for sapropel formation and the Messinian Salinity Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 472 ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Simon ◽  
Alice Marzocchi ◽  
Rachel Flecker ◽  
Daniel J. Lunt ◽  
Frits J. Hilgen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Messinian Salinity Crisis ◽  
Freshwater Budget ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals The distribution of <i>Triebelina raripila</i> and <i>Carinocythereis carinata</i> (Ostracoda) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys and their palaeogeographic implications

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Szczechura
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Central Paratethys ◽  
Eastern Paratethys ◽  
Main Species ◽  
Late Middle Miocene ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract. Late Middle Miocene (Upper Badenian) strata of the Fore-Carpathian Depression of Poland yield a shallow-water ostracod fauna which contains the species Triebelina raripila (G. W. Müller, 1894) and Carinocythereis carinata (Roemer, 1838). The palaeobiogeographic distribution of the two main species suggests, that in the late Middle Miocene, Central Paratethys was still connected to the Mediterranean, although still separated from the Eastern Paratethys and from southeastern Eurasia. The continuous occurrence of Triebelina raripila and Carinocythereis carinata in the Mediterranean basins, from the Early Miocene to Recent, indicates that marine conditions existed throughout, thereby allowing them to survive the Late Miocene salinity crisis.

scholarly journals Tectonic control on past circulation of the Mediterranean Sea: A model study of the Late Miocene

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Th. Meijer ◽  
R. Slingerland ◽  
M. J. R. Wortel
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Tectonic Control ◽  
Model Study ◽  
The Mediterranean

Present Development Phases of the Suez Canal Project

1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-465
Author(s):  
Nabil Hilaly
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
Development Phases ◽  
The Mediterranean

It is recorded that Egypt was the first country to dig a canal to promote world trade; the first canal was dug in the reign of Pharaoh Senusret III (1887–1849 B.C.), to link the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea through the Nile delta. This canal, often abandoned due to silting, was reopened for navigation by later Pharaohs and finally by Amro Ibn El Ass in A.D. 640 after which it remained open for 150 years.

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