Marie-Madeleine Blanc-Valleron

TL;DR: In this article, a graph of S[2] vs. total organic carbon (TOC) is used to evaluate the sedimentary environments and petroleum potential of the Paleogene evaporitic sediments of the Mulhouse basin, Alsace, France.

TL;DR: The Pissouri Basin in Cyprus contains one of the most suitable sedimentary successions with which to study the onset of the Messinian Salinity crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The study of the late Messinian-Early Pliocene sediments in south Cyprus (Pissouri and Polemi basins) and the comparison with the offshore coeval deposits drilled in the ODP Leg 160 boreholes, provide new data illustrating the environmental changes which occurred in the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the salinity crisis.

TL;DR: In this article, a high-resolution approach using sedimentology, stable isotopes of the carbonates and microfossils of the Tripoli Formation was used to study the change in the Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity crisis.

TL;DR: Authigenic carbonates are typically depleted in 13C, revealing that the major carbon source for those carbonates derives from anaerobic oxidation of methane driven by microbial consortia of archaea and sulfate reducing bacteria as discussed by the authors.