Lago Mare episodes around the Messinian – Zanclean boundary in the deep southwestern Mediterranean.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 66 , Part 1, September 2015, Pages 55-70.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mathieu Dalibard, Jean-Pierre Suc, Nadia Barhoun, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Maria Angela Bassetti, Florina Deaconu, Martin J.Head,...

New insights on the Sorbas Basin (SE Spain): The onshore reference of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 66 , Part 1, September 2015, Pages 71-100.   Authors: Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Damien Do Couto, Gwénaël Jouannic, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Laurent Jolivet, Frédéric Quillévéré,...

The region of the Strandja Sill (North Turkey) and the Messinian events.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 66 , Part 1, September 2015, Pages 149-164.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Hervé Gillet, M. Namik Çagatay, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Gilles Lericolais, Rolano Armijo, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Sevket Sen, Georges...

Messinian evaporite deposition during sea level rise in the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean)

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 66, Part 1, September 2015, Pages 262-277.   Authors: François Bache, Julien Gargani, Jean-Pierre Suc, Christian Gorini, Marina Rabineau, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Estelle Leroux, Damien Do Couto, Gwenaël Jouannic,...

Reply to the comment on the paper “Lago Mare and the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Evidence from the Alboran Sea (S. Spain) ” authored by Serrano and Guerra-Merchán.

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 65 , August 2015, Pages 340 – 342.   Authors: Damien Do Couto, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Piere Suc, Mihaela Carmen Melinte Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhoun, Christian Gorini, Laurent Jolivet, Jeffrey Poort, Gwénaël...

The embalming of John of Lancaster, first Duke of Bedford (1435 AD): A forensic analysis.

Article: Medicine, Science and the Law, Volume 56, Issue 2, 30 June, 2015, Pages 1-9.   Authors: Philippe Charlier, Jöel Pupon, Gaël-François Jeannael, Dominique Favier, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Anaïs Augias, Isabelle Huynh-Charlier, Laetitia Laquay, Omar...

Anatolia: A long-time plant refuge area documented by pollen records over the last 23 million years.

Article: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 215 , April 2015, Pages 1-22.   Authors: Demet Biltekin, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Pierre Quézel, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Nurdan Yavuz, M. Namik Çagatay.   Abstract: North and South...

Quantifying the Eocene to Pleistocene topographic evolution of the southwestern Alps, France and Italy.

Article: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 412, Issue 3, 15 February 2015, Pages 220-234.   Authors: Séverine Fauquette, Matthias Bernet, Jean-Pierre Suc, Anne-Sabine Grosjean, Stéphane Guillot, Peter van der Beek, Sébastien Jourdan, Speranta-Maria...

The heart of Blessed Anne-Madeleine Remuzat: a biomedical approach of “miraculous” heart conservation.

Article: Cardiovascular Pathology, Volume 23 , Issue 6, November-December 2014, Pages 344-350.     Authors: Philippe Charlier, Isabelle Huynh-Charlier, Joël Poupon, Carles Lalueza Fox, Christine Keyser, Christian Mougniot, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Luc Brun,...

Enregistrement des changements climatiques aux hautes latitudes au Paléogène et au Jurassique inférieur en Arctique.

Conference: 24th Earth Sciences Meeting, Pau, France, 27-31 October 2014, p.483. https://rst2014-pau.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/39   Authors: Marie Salpin, Johan Schnyder, François Baudin, Guillaume Suan, Loïc Labrousse, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Luc...

Paléoaltitude des sommets pyrénéens d’après l’analyse pollinique.

Conference: 24th Earth Sciences Meeting, Pau, France, 27-31 October 2014, p.236. https://rst2014-pau.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/39   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Frédéric Mouthereau.   Abstract: Une double...

Apport des données organiques et argileuses du Paléogène des îles de Nouvelle Sibérie pour la reconstitution des paléoenvironnements et paléoclimats de l’Arctique sibérien.

Conference: 24th Earth Sciences Meeting, Pau, France, 27-31 October 2014, p.481. https://rst2014-pau.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/39   Authors: Johan Schnyder, Guillaume Suan, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Daichi Yoon, Jean-Pierre Suc, François Baudin, Loïc...

Evénements « Lago Mare » en domaine méditerranéen, biostratigraphie et paléo-environnements.

Conference: 24th Earth Sciences Meeting, Pau, France, 27-31 October 2014, p.60. https://rst2014-pau.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/39   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mathieu Dalibard, Jean-Pierre Suc, Nadia Barhoun, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Maria...

La mangrove en domaine arctique au maximum thermique de l’Eocène.

Conference: In « Coastline Changes: Interrelation of Climate and Geological Processes », Eds. Jan Harff, William W. Hay, Daniel M. Tetzlaff, Geological Society of America, Volume 426, p. 171-188. https://rst2014-pau.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/39   Authors:...

Evolution tectono-sédimentaire des marges conjuguées du Golfe du Lion et du sud-ouest Sarde et modélisations stratigraphiques.

Conference: 24th Earth Sciences Meeting, Pau, France, 27-31 October 2014, p.79 https://rst2014-pau.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/39   Authors: Estelle Leroux, Marina Rabineau, Daniel Aslanian, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Nadia Barhoun, Mihaela Carmen...

Late Pleistocene-Holocene Caspian Sea-level and climate changes.

Conference:IGCP 610 Second Plenary Meeting and Field Trip, Baku, Azerbaijzan, 12-20 October 2014. Authors:Elmira Aliyeva, Dadash Huseynov, Salomon B. Kroonenberg, A. Baba-Zadeh, Marc de Batist, R. Hoogendoorn, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc. Abstract:High...

High-resolution vegetation history of West Africa during the last 155 ka.

Article: Geobios, Volume 47 , Issue 4, July-August 2014, Pages 183-198.   Authors: Mathieu Dalibard, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean Maley, François Baudin, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Bernard Pittet, Tania Marsset, Bernard Dennielou, Laurence Droz,...

Lago Mare and the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Evidences from the Alboran Sea (S. Spain).

Article: Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 52 , April 2014, Pages 57-76.   Authors: Damien Do Couto, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhoun, Christian Gorini, Laurent Jolivet, Jeffrey Poort, Gwenaël...

Apports des donnes organiques et argileuses du Paléogene des Iles de Nouvelle Siberie pour la reconstitution des paléoenvironnements et paléoclimats de l’Arctique Siberien.

Conference:14th ASF Congres, Paris, France, 4-8 November, 2013. Authors:Daichi Yoon, Johann Schnyder, Guillaume Suan, François Baudin, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Loïc Labrousse. Abstract:Le début du Paléogène est ponctué d’épisodes de changements...

High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the last 7 Ma in the Black Sea.

Article: AAPG European Regional Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, 26-27 September 2013.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte Dobrinescu.   Abstract: Late Neogene and Quaternary sediments of the Black Sea are difficult to...

A new concept of Paratethys-Mediterranean exchanges and Lago Mare events in the Mediterranean basins.

Conference: AAPG European Regional Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, 26-27 September 2013.   Author: Speranta-Maria Popescu.   Abstract: Connections between Mediterranean and Paratethys during the Late Miocene and Pliocene are still intensely debated. Such...

Vegetation belts in peri-Mediterranean massifs during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene.

Conference: RCMNS 14th Congres, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-12 September 2013, p.104.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Gonzalo Jiménez -Moreno, Naima Bachiri-Taoufik, Demet Biltekin.   Abstract: Estimation of palaeoaltitudes is...

Lago Mare events in the Mediterranean.

Conference: RCMNS 14th Congres, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-12 September 2013, p.68.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhoun, Maria Angela Bassetti,, Romain Pellen, Damien Do Couto, Jean-Pierre Suc, Christian Gorini, Marina...

The impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the region of the Marmara Sea.

Conference:RCMNS 14th Congres, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-12 September, 2013. Authors:Jean-Pierre Suc, Gunay Çifci, Cagil Karakas, Rolando Armijo, Robin Lacassin, Seda Okay, Barin Burcu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Christian Gorini, Jean-Loup Rubino, Namik M. Çağatay,...

Improved chronostratigraphy of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Conference: RCMNS 14th Congres, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-12 September 2013, p. 41.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, François Bache, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Damien Do Couto, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Christian Gorini, jean-Loup Rubino, Namik Çagatay, Speranta-Maria...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Alboran Sea. Morphology of the Messinian Erosional Surface from land to sea.

Conference: RCMNS 14th Congres, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-12 September 2013, p. 54.   Authors: Damien Do Couto, Christian Gorini, Ferran Estrada, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Nadia Barhoun, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte Dobrinescu, Jean-Luc Auxietre, Jean-Loup...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis, a perspective for reservoir exploration in the Mediterranean and adjacent basins.

Conference: AAPG  European Regional Conference,  8-10 April 2013, Barcelona Spain.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, François Bache, Christian Gorini, Damien Do Couto, Laurent Jolivet, Jean-Loup Rubino, Ludovic Mocochain, Speranta-Maria Popescu.   Abstract: The...

The embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart (1199 A.D.): a biological and anthropological analysis.

Article:Nature, Scientific Reports, Volume 3 , Article number 1296 (2013), 28 February 2013, Pages 228-229. Authors:Philippe Charlier, Joël Poupon, Gaël-François Jeannel, Dominique Favier, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Raphael Weil, Christophe Moulherat, Isabelle...

Dinoflagellates, a new proxy for evidencing (paleo)tsunami.

Poster: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California USA, 3-6 December September 2012.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Damien Do Couto, Jean-Pierre SUC, Christian Gorini.   Abstract: As a preliminary investigation, dinoflagellates have been searched in...

KZai 02 pollen record, an insight into West African monsoon fluctuations during the Last Climatic Cycle.

Conference: EGU- General Assembly, Vienna , Austria, 22-27 April 2012.   Authors: Mathieu Dalibard, Speranta-Maria Popescu,  Jean Maley, Jean-Pierre Suc.   Abstract: Climate of the circum-Atlantic intertropical zone is driven by the ocean/atmosphere dynamics...

A two-step process for the reflouding of the Mediterranean after the Messinia Salinity Crisis.

Article: Basin Research, Volume 24 , Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 125-153. Authors: François Bache, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Marina Rabineau, Christian Gorini, Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Jean-Louis Olivet, Jean-Loup Rubino, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu,...

Evaluation of the Last Glacial Cycle (MIS 5 to 1). Environmental changes in southwestern Black sea based on organic-walled phytoplankton at DSDP Site 380.

Conference: GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, 9 -12 October 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Abstracts with Programs.Vol. 43 (5), p.262.   Authors: Shannon M. Ferguson, Sophie Warny, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Gilles Escarguel.   Abstract: Preliminary...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Dacic Basin (SW Romania) and early Zanclean Mediterranean–Eastern Paratethys high sea-level connection.

Article: Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 310 , Issues 3-4, 1 October 2011, Pages 256-272.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Damien Do Couto, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Rodica Macalet, Frédéric Quillévéré, Georges Clauzon, Istvan Castro,...

Climate records in the Pleistocene-Holocene South Caspian succesion.

Conference: IAS 28th Meeting of Sedimentology, Zaragoza, Spain, 5-8 July 2011. Authors: Elmira Aliyeva, Salomon B. Kroonenberg, Marc de Batist, Dadash Huseinov, Alya Baba-Zadeh, Robert Hoogendoorn, Jean-Pierre Suc, Lise de Mol, Nicola Kasimov, Mikhail  Lychagin, Tine...

Messinian events in The Mediterranean: A review from the offshore basins.

Conference: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April 2011.   Authors: Christian Gorini, François Bache, Ferran Estrada, Belén Alonso, Abdellah Ammar, Daniel Aslanian, Damien Do Couto, Antonio Tadeu Dos Reis, Mohammed Elabbassi, Gemma Ercilla, Marga...

Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene vegetation and climate changes at the European scale.

Article: Quaternary International, Volume 219, Issues 1-2, 1 june 2010, Pages 152 -167. Authors: Sperata-Maria Popescu, Demet Biltekin, Hana Winter, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Stephane Klotz, Marina Rabineau, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout,...

The Crotone series: A synthesis and new data.

Article: Quaternary International, Volume 2019 , Issues 1-2, June 2010, Pages 121-133.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Nathalie Combourieu-Debout, Guy Seret, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Stefan Klotz, François Gautier, Georges Clauzon, John Westgate, Donatella Insinga,...

Pliocene climate along a 42-52° North latitude European transect documented by pollen records.

Article: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2-7 Mai 2010   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Demet Biltekin, Hanna Winter, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela-Carmen Melinte Dobrinescu, Stefan Klotz, Marina Rabineau.   Abstract: Climate characteristics (temperature,...

High-resolution vegetation dynamics reconstitution in the Zaire/Congo watershed since MIS 6.

Conference: In “Coastline Changes: Interrelation of Climate and Geological Processes”, Eds. Jan Harff, William W. Hay, Daniel M. Tetzlaff, Geological Society of America, Volume 426, p. 171-188.   Authors: Mathieu Dalibard, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean...

Pleistocene connections and Holocene separation of the Caspian and Black seas : data from the modern Kura Delta, Azerbaijan.

Conference: International Conference, The Caspian Region, January 2010,  Moscow, Russia, p. 17-20.   Authors: Salomon B. Kroonenberg, Elmira Aliyeva, Marc de Batist, Robert M. Hoogendoorn, Dadash Huseynov, Rovshan Huseynov, N.S. Kasimov, Mikhail Lychagin, Lies de...

The Lower Pleistocene vegetation changes in Europe, Mediterranean region and Middle East as a response to climatic cycles.

Conference: Séance spécialisée AFEQ –SGF, Paris, 3 décembre 2009, France.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Demet Bilteken, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Hanna Winter, Stephan Klotz.   Abstract: The Lower Pleistocene vegetation in Europe,...

Mediterranean-Paratethys connections before and after Messinian salinity crisis based on Galecysta etrusca morphology.

Article:Abstracts book of 13th Congress RCMNS, 2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy “Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean Area”,  2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy, Acta Naturalia de “L’Ateneo Parmense”, Parma: 45 (1),  p.107.  Authors:Speranta-Maria...

A two-step process for the reflooding of the Mediterranean basin after the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Article: Abstracts book of 13th Congress RCMNS, 2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy “Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean Area”,  2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy, Acta Naturalia de “L’Ateneo Parmense”, Parma: 45 (1), p.320. Authors: François Bache,...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Northeastern Aegean – Black Sea region.

Conference: Abstracts book of 13th Congress RCMNS, 2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy “Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean Area”,  2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy, Acta Naturalia de “L’Ateneo Parmense”, Parma: 45 (1): 116. Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc,...

New insights from the Andalusian Sorbas and Vera basins.

Conference: Abstracts book of 13th Congress RCMNS, 2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy “Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean Area”,  2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy, Acta Naturalia de “L’Ateneo Parmense”, Parma: 45 (1) p.334. Authors: Georges Clauzon,...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Dardanelles region: chronostratigraphic constraints.

Article:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 278, Issues 1-4, 15 July 2009, Pages 24-39. Authors:Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Rolando Armijo, Bertrand Meyer,  M. Namik Çagatay, Gülsen...

Response of European vegetation to the Global Climatic Changes during the Neogene.

Poster: Abstracts book of 13th Congress RCMNS, 2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy “Earth System Evolution and the Mediterranean Area”,  2-6 September 2009, Naples, Italy, Acta Naturalia de “L’Ateneo Parmense”, Parma: 45 (1): p.135. Authors: Speranta-Maria...

Galeacysta etrusca complex, dinoflagellate cyst marker of Paratethyan influxes into the Mediterranean Sea before and after the peak of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Article: Palynology, Volume 33, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 105-134.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Florent Dalesme, Gwenaël Jouannic, Gilles Escarguel, Martin J. Head, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Maria Sütö-Szentai, Koraljka Bakrac, Georges Clauzon,...

Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments. Investigating its potential as salinity proxy.

Article: Marine Micropaleontology, Volume 70 , Issues 1-2, 10 January 2009, Pages 54-69. Authors: Kenneth N. Mertens, Sofia Ribeiro, Ilham Bouimetarhan, Hulya Caner, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Barrie Dale, Anne de Vernal, Marianne Ellegaard, Mariana Filipova, Anna...

Marine reflooding of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis predates the Zanclean GSSP.

Article: Geobios, Volume 41, Issue 5, September – October 2008, Pages 657-660.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu,  Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Frédéric Quillévéré, Maria Sütö-Szentai.   Abstract: After some...