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Francesca Bulian

@BulianFrancesca

Geologist and micropaleontologist #foraminifera #geochemistry Groningen Institute of Archeology @SaltGiant @SaltandPower

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Joined November 2018
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@univgroningen news! rug.nl/let/onze-faculteit/ac… about our new @ScienceAdvances paper!
How the once-dry Mediterranean Sea was filled with water

How the once-dry Mediterranean Sea was filled with water

Using high-resolution landscape evolution models, researchers showed that the Mediterranean Sea began filling long before the Atlantic Ocean breached.

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Figure: Isolation and partial desiccation of the Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. (Mantero and Garcia-Castellanos, 2011).
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PAPER! 🌊 Before the Atlantic megaflood, rivers & rain began refilling the desiccated Mediterranean—but sea levels oscillated by over a kilometre, driven by orbital climate cycles. This dynamic phase lasted 200,000+ years. science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… @ScienceAdvances @univgroningen
Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and...

Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and...

Upon desiccation, the Mediterranean level rose because of the erosional capture of surrounding lacustrine basins.

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🌍 But it wasn’t a simple refill: Sea level oscillated by over a kilometre, driven by orbital cycles in Earth’s insolation. These shifts caused alternating wetter and drier phases, reshaping the landscape repeatedly over 200,000+ years.
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Already decades ago, microfossils had hinted at this story. Now, by combining paleoclimate data, landscape models, and sediment records, the study offers a comprehensive view of this dynamic pre-megaflood phase and the freshwater reshaping of a salt giant.
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☀️“Durante el aislamiento del Mediterráneo su nivel habría caído hasta dos kilómetros por debajo del actual, y entonces habría comenzado a oscilar por los cambios orbitales en la insolación de la Tierra”, explica Daniel G. Castellanos (@danigeos), investigador de @GEO3BCN_CSIC 👇
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La paradoja del Mediterráneo lleno y vacío hace 5.5 millones de años. theconversation.com/la-parad…
La paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a...

La paradoja mediterránea: un nuevo estudio explica cómo el mar parece haber estado lleno y vacío a...

Hace unos cinco millones de años, hubo un tiempo en que el Mediterráneo se secó. Ya no podía retener el agua de los ríos en sus desembocadoras y estos pasaron a formar lagos someros en su centro,...

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By the way, parts of this video were created by Manuel Mantero, who short after won the Oscar for FX - special effects
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🌊La paradoja del Mediterráneo, un mar vacío y lleno a la vez hace más de 5 millones de años 🌏Un estudio del #CSIC señala que los cambios climáticos y el aporte de agua desde ríos y lagos explicarían esta contradicción aparente de finales del Mioceno 👉 tiny.cc/epbp001
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Very happy to have this published today in @ScienceAdvances We may have a detailed picture of how the Mediterranean level evolved. "Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis caused by river erosion and climate" science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… w/ @BulianFrancesca
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📢 Join us for the next GIA Research Seminar on June 4th at 16:00 in Room A902 (Broerstraat 9) or online! 🌍 Topic: The Guarda Archaeological Project (GAP) 🥂 Drinks after at the GIA canteen! 🔗 meet.google.com/nsn-xewt-vfc @FacultyofArtsUG
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⚠️On behalf of the co-leader of WG1 @SaltAges, I would like to invite everyone working in or interested in learning how to apply advanced statistics in R for Earth Sciences to participate in the two-day intensive course we are organising. #Statistics #online #EVENT #cost #action
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✨ Exciting @SaltAges COST action grant opportunities! 🧂Apply now!!📝 🧳Short-Term Scientific Missions: gain new skills or share your expertise 🎤 Conference Grants: Showcase your work & expand your network 💡 Match projects & hosts on our board! sites.google.com/view/saltag…
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🎙️ Join us tomorrow 14th January for an exciting talk by @Cetoarchaeology! Discover fascinating insights into the history of this lost whale population! 🐋 #Archaeology #MarineBiology #GreyWhale @FacultyofArtsUG In person and online: meet.google.com/sqm-oijr-syb
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Join us this afternoon in the Academy building of the RUG (room 8) to hear all about Early Mycenaean Burials! Also online: meet.google.com/ers-gybs-jfm @RU_Letteren
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Very nice core with 2000 year old volcanic ash sampled during our fieldwork i Lazio (Italy) @saltandpower #fieldwork #Italy #eruptions
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The SaltAges @COSTprogramme Action took off yesterday in Brussels with the election of @kagiadi as chair. 4 years ahead of good training, workshops, and conferences on the importance of salt giants on society, biology & climate. Researchers can sign up at e-services.cost.eu/action/CA…
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🌍 New paper out! We present detailed sedimentological, paleontological, and tephrochronological data from the Tyrrhenian coast, shedding light on sea-level changes during MIS 7 (253–206 ka). #Geology #Paleoenvironment #SeaLevelRise #Volcanism sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Fossils tell tale of devastating mass extinction when Mediterranean dried up

Fossils tell tale of devastating mass extinction when Mediterranean dried up

Hundred of species perished 6 million years ago as sea became salt desert

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🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 We present preliminary results of stratigraphic, paleomagnetic, micropaleontologic, & geochronologic investigations on boreholes in Rome as part of the Predict Project. 🏛️🌍 #QuaternaryScience #Geology #Seismology #GIS #EarthScience annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.…
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New paper out! Tells the evolution of salt production along Italy's coast between Bronze Age to Roman era! 🧂 Highlights the environmental, technological, and geopolitical factors in Italy's ancient salt economy 🌊 #SaltProduction @saltandpower sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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