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Walter Capella
Researcher at Utrecht University
Publications - 11
Citations - 533
Walter Capella is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Late Miocene & Mediterranean sea. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 11 publications receiving 369 citations. Previous affiliations of Walter Capella include Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change
Rachel Flecker,Wout Krijgsman,Walter Capella,César C. Martins,Evelina Dmitrieva,Jan Peter Mayser,Alice Marzocchi,Sevasti Modestu,Diana Ochoa,Dirk Simon,M. A. Tulbure,Bas C.J. van den Berg,Marlies Van der Schee,Gert J. de Lange,Rob M. Ellam,Rob Govers,Marcus Gutjahr,Frits Hilgen,Tanja Kouwenhoven,Johanna Lofi,Johanna Lofi,Paul Meijer,Francisco J. Sierro,Naima Bachiri,N. Barhoun,Abdelwahid Chakor Alami,Beatriz Chacón,José A. Flores,John Gregory,James P. Howard,Daniel J. Lunt,Maria Ochoa,Rich D Pancost,Stephen J. Vincent,M. Z. Yousfi +34 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the Late Miocene gateways and the nature of Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange as deduced from published studies focussed both on the sediments preserved within the fossil corridors and inferences that can be derived from data in the adjacent basins.
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The Gibraltar Corridor: Watergate of the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Wout Krijgsman,Walter Capella,Dirk Simon,Frits Hilgen,Tanja Kouwenhoven,Paul Meijer,Francisco J. Sierro,M. A. Tulbure,Bas C.J. van den Berg,Marlies Van der Schee,Rachel Flecker +10 more
TL;DR: The existence and evolution of a Messinian salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea has caused much debate in the marine science community as mentioned in this paper, especially the suggestion that the Mediterranean was a deep desiccated basin during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC, 5.97-5.33 Ma), triggered by a temporal disconnection from the global ocean, made it a well-known crisis beyond the scientific boundaries.
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Sandy contourite drift in the late Miocene Rifian Corridor (Morocco): Reconstruction of depositional environments in a foreland-basin seaway
Walter Capella,F.J. Hernández-Molina,Rachel Flecker,Frederik J Hilgen,M. Hssain,Tanja Kouwenhoven,M. Van Oorschot,Francisco J. Sierro,Dorrik A. V. Stow,João Trabucho-Alexandre,M. A. Tulbure,W. de Weger,M. Z. Yousfi,Wout Krijgsman +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the upper Miocene sedimentation and bottom current pathways in the South Rifian Corridor and found that the planktic and benthic foraminifera of the upper Tortonian and lower Messinian successions allow us to constrain the age and palaeo-environment of deposition.
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Thick-skinned tectonics closing the Rifian Corridor
Walter Capella,Liviu Matenco,Evelina Dmitrieva,Wilmer M.J. Roest,Suzanne Hessels,Mohamed Hssain,Abdelwahid Chakor-Alami,Francisco Javier Sierro,Wout Krijgsman +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a structural analysis based on a combination of field kinematic data and interpretation of reflection seismic lines acquired for petroleum exploration to understand the deformational phases associated with the closure of the Rifian Corridor.
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Palaeogeographic evolution of the late Miocene Rifian Corridor (Morocco): Reconstructions from surface and subsurface data
Walter Capella,N. Barhoun,Rachel Flecker,Frederik J Hilgen,Tanja Kouwenhoven,Liviu Matenco,Francisco J. Sierro,M. A. Tulbure,M. Z. Yousfi,Wout Krijgsman +9 more
TL;DR: The Rifian Corridor was one of the Mediterranean-Atlantic seaways that progressively restricted and caused the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) in the early Miocene as discussed by the authors.