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A comprehensive and updated compilation of the seismic stratigraphy markers in the Western Mediterranean Sea

The Western Mediterranean Sea is a natural laboratory to address questions about the formation and evolution of continental margins and the relationship between surface and deep processes. The evaporites deposited during the late Miocene’s Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) strongly impact its sedimentological and geomorphological evolution. Hereafter, we present a compilation of some of the main regional seismic stratigraphic markers throughout the Western Mediterranean Sea. We provide in xyz format (z in second twt) the original, not interpolated, points interpretation of the following horizons: i) Acoustic basement, ii) Base and Top of the MSC salt, also known as Mobile Unit (MU), iii) base Pliocene and iv) Seafloor. The available reflection seismic dataset, coming from a collaboration between French, Spanish, Algerian and Italian research institutes, covers most of the Western Mediterranean sub-basins with the exception of the Ligurian Basin. This compilation is currently the most comprehensive and updated available in literature and provides a useful contribution to the scientific community working in sedimentary, tectonics and geodynamics studies in the Western Mediterranean Sea.

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Date (Publication)
2021-04-16
Date (Revision)
2025-06-05
Other citation details
Bellucci Massimo, Pellen Romain, Leroux Estelle, Bache Francois, Garcia Marga, Do Couto Damien, Raad Fadl, Blondel Simon, Rabineau Marina, Gorini Christian, Moulin Maryline, Maillard Agnes, Lofi Johanna, Del Ben Anna, Camerlenghi Angelo, Poort Jeffrey, Aslanian Daniel (2021). A comprehensive and updated compilation of the seismic stratigraphy markers in the Western Mediterranean Sea. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/80128
Credit
This work was supported by Labex MER (ANR10-LABX-19) and the ISblue project, Interdisciplinary graduate school for the blue planet (ANR-17-EURE-0015) co-funded by a grant from the French government under the program "Investissements d'Avenir" and by a PHD grant awarded to M. Bellucci by the Regional Council of Brittany and IFREMER and prepared at the EDSML doctoral School at UBO (University of Brest) and the University of Trieste. It was further supported by COST-CA15103-MEDSALT program and “Université Franco-Italienne, Programme VINCI 2019”.
Author
  IFREMER, Géosciences Marines, Plouzané, France Univ. Brest, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR 6538 IUEM - CNRS, Plouzané, France Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste, Italy - BELLUCCI Massimo
Author
  Univ. Brest, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR 6538 IUEM - CNRS, Plouzané, France - PELLEN Romain
Author
  IFREMER, Géosciences Marines, Plouzané, France - LEROUX Estelle
Author
  GNS Science, PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand - BACHE Francois
Author
  Univ. Barcelona, now at IEO, Cadiz, Spain - GARCIA Marga
Author
  Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, ISTeP, Paris, France - DO COUTO Damien
Author
  Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université des Antilles – Bâtiment 22, Université de Montpellier 2, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 05,34095, France - RAAD Fadl
Author
  Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale OGS, Trieste, Italy - Blondel Simon
Author
  Univ. Brest, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR 6538 IUEM - CNRS, Plouzané, France - RABINEAU Marina
Author
  Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, ISTeP, Paris, France - GORINI Christian
Author
  IFREMER, Géosciences Marines, Plouzané, France - MOULIN Maryline
Author
  Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, 14 avenue E. Belin, Toulouse, F-31400, France - MAILLARD Agnes
Author
  Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université des Antilles – Bâtiment 22, Université de Montpellier 2, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 05,34095, France - LOFI Johanna
Author
  Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste, Italy - DEL BEN Anna
Author
  Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale OGS, Trieste, Italy - CAMERLENGHI Angelo
Author
  Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, ISTeP, Paris, France - POORT Jeffrey
Author
  IFREMER, Géosciences Marines, Plouzané, France - ASLANIAN Daniel
Publisher
  SEANOE
Theme
  • Western Mediterranean Sea
  • Stratigraphic markers
  • Messinian Salinity Crisis
  • Marine geology
ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
  • Bathymetry
  • Geology
  • Salinity
  • Seismic
SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines
  • Marine geology
Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
  • /Observational data/in-situ
Use limitation
CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons - Attribution, No commercial usage, Sharing under the same conditions)
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Other restrictions
Other constraints
Although all data in this archive have been used by the authors, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials.
Date (Publication)
2025
Publisher
  Copernicus GmbH
Author
  Torne Montserrat
Author
  Alves Tiago M.
Author
  Jiménez-Munt Ivone
Author
  Carvalho Joao
Author
  Ayala Conxi
Author
  Ramalho Elsa C.
Author
  Gómez-García Angela María
Author
  Matias Hugo
Author
  Heida Hanneke
Author
  Balaguera Abraham
Author
  García-Lobón José Luis
Author
  Vergés Jaume
Unique resource identifier
10.5194/essd-17-1275-2025
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2024
Publisher
  EDP Sciences
Author
  BELLUCCI MASSIMO
Author
  LEROUX ESTELLE
Author
  ASLANIAN DANIEL
Author
  MOULIN MARYLINE
Author
  PELLEN ROMAIN
Author
  RABINEAU MARINA
Unique resource identifier
10.1051/bsgf/2024007
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2023
Publisher
  Elsevier BV
Author
  BELLUCCI MASSIMO
Author
  POORT JEFFREY
Author
  LUCAZEAU FRANCIS
Author
  ROLANDONE FRÉDÉRIQUE
Author
  DO COUTO DAMIEN
Author
  BLONDEL SIMON
Author
  RABINEAU MARINA
Author
  ASLANIAN DANIEL
Author
  MOULIN MARYLINE
Author
  PELLEN ROMAIN
Author
  LEROUX ESTELLE
Author
  VÁZQUEZ JUAN-TOMÁS
Author
  GORINI CHRISTIAN
Unique resource identifier
10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230155
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2022
Publisher
  Wiley
Author
  BLONDEL SIMON
Author
  BELLUCCI MASSIMO
Author
  EVANS SIAN
Author
  DEL BEN ANNA
Author
  CAMERLENGHI ANGELO
Unique resource identifier
10.1111/bre.12673
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2022
Publisher
  Elsevier BV
Author
  MAILLARD AGNÈS
Author
  RAAD FADL
Author
  CHANIER FRANK
Author
  HEIDA HANNEKE
Author
  LOFI JOHANNA
Author
  MAS GUILLEM
Author
  GARCIA-CASTELLANOS DANIEL
Unique resource identifier
10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229295
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2022
Publisher
  Wiley
Author
  Raad Fadl
Author
  Ebner Ronja
Author
  Heida Hanneke
Author
  Meijer Paul
Author
  Lofi Johanna
Author
  Maillard Agnès
Author
  Garcia‐Castellanos Daniel
Unique resource identifier
10.1111/bre.12702
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2021
Publisher
  Wiley
Author
  Heida Hanneke
Author
  Raad Fadl
Author
  Garcia‐Castellanos Daniel
Author
  Jiménez‐Munt Ivone
Author
  Maillard Agnès
Author
  Lofi Johanna
Unique resource identifier
10.1111/bre.12610
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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OnLine resource
Acoustic basement - 400 MB ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Acoustic basement - 400 MB

OnLine resource
Base salt - 89 MB ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Base salt - 89 MB

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Top salt - 81 MB ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Top salt - 81 MB

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Base Plio-Quatenary - 311 MB ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Base Plio-Quatenary - 311 MB

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Seafloor - 552 MB ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Seafloor - 552 MB

OnLine resource
Framework, description and contributions of the seismic stratigraphy compilation - 6 MB ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Framework, description and contributions of the seismic stratigraphy compilation - 6 MB

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DOI of the product ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL )
OnLine resource
Seanoe ( rel-canonical )
Hierarchy level
Dataset
File identifier
seanoe:80128 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-05
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  IFREMER, Géosciences Marines, Plouzané, France Univ. Brest, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, UMR 6538 IUEM - CNRS, Plouzané, France Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università di Trieste, Italy - BELLUCCI Massimo
 
 

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Marine geology Messinian Salinity Crisis Stratigraphic markers Western Mediterranean Sea
ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
Bathymetry Geology Salinity Seismic
Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
/Observational data/in-situ

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