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28 Oct 2022
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| 28 Oct 2022
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Mediterranean–Black Sea gateway exchange: scientific drilling workshop on the BlackGate project
Wout Krijgsman
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Iuliana Vasiliev
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Anouk Beniest
Department of Geosciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Timothy Lyons
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Johanna Lofi
Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 05, France
Gabor Tari
OMV Upstream, Exploration, 1020 Vienna, Austria
Caroline P. Slomp
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Namik Cagatay
EMCOL Research Centre, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Campus, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey
Maria Triantaphyllou
Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, 15784 Athens, Greece
Rachel Flecker
BRIDGE, School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
Dan Palcu
Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade do São Paulo, 05508-120 São Paulo, Brazil
Cecilia McHugh
Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Helge Arz
Marine Geology, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), 18119 Rostock, Germany
Pierre Henry
Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Coll France, CEREGE, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France
Karen Lloyd
Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Gunay Cifci
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Deniz Bilimleri ve Teknolojisi Enstitüsü, İnciraltı, 35340 İzmir, Turkey
Özgür Sipahioglu
Exploration Department, Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakliǧi (TPAO), 06530 Çankaya-Ankara, Turkey
Dimitris Sakellariou
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19103 Anavyssos, Greece
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Short summary
BlackGate seeks to MSP drill a transect to study the impact of dramatic hydrologic change in Mediterranean–Black Sea connectivity by recovering the Messinian to Holocene (~ 7 Myr) sedimentary sequence in the North Aegean, Marmara, and Black seas. These archives will reveal hydrographic, biotic, and climatic transitions studied by a broad scientific community spanning the stratigraphic, tectonic, biogeochemical, and microbiological evolution of Earth’s most recent saline and anoxic giant.
BlackGate seeks to MSP drill a transect to study the impact of dramatic hydrologic change in...
