The latest Miocene – earliest Pliocene Mediterranean mega-cycle in sea-level.

Conference: 33rd International Geological Congress, 6-4 August 2008, Oslo, Norway. Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, François Bache, Jean-Jacques Cornée, Jacques Deverchère, El Such-El Koundy Narjes, Serge Fery, Hervé Gillet, Christian Gorini, Gilles...

Canyons messiniens, Gilbert deltas zancléens et paléogéographie de la mer de Marmara.

Conference: Séance spécialisée de la Société Géologique de France, 5-6 Mai, 2008, Lyon, France. Authors: Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Rolando Armijo, Bertrand Meyer, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu,Gilles Lericolais, Hervé Gillet, Speranta-Maria Popescu,...

Une nouvelle idée des échanges Paratéthys – Méditerranée et des événements Lago Mare à travers le Complexe Galeacysta etrusca.

Conference: Séance spécialisée de la Société Géologique de France, 5-6 mai, 2008, Lyon France.     Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Gilles Escarguel, Frédéric Quillévéré, Florent...

The propagation of the North Anatolian Fault in the Dardanelles Region and the Messinian Salinity Crisis: A new challenge.

Conference: Turkish Geological Congress, 24-28 March, 2008, Ankara, Turkey. Authors: Rolando Armijo, Bertrand Meyer, Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Gülsen Ucarkus, Ziyadin Çakir, Namik M. Çağatay.  ...

Impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Marmara Sea region. Did a connection exist between the Aegean and Black seas at that time?

Conference: Turkish Geological Congress, 24-28 March, 2008, Ankara, Turkey. Authors: Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Rolando Armijo, Bertrand Meyer, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Gilles Lericolais, Hervé Gillet, M. Namik Çagatay, Speranta-Maria Popescu,...

Nannofossil records and the impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Northeastern Aegean region (NW Turkey).

Conference: Scientific Workshop  ” What happened in southern Romania and Black sea when the Mediterranean Sea desiccated 5.6 Ma ago”, Bucarest, Romania, 29 February – 1 March 2008, Abstract volume, pages 18 -19. Authors: Mihaela Carmen...

Mediterranean-Paratethys connections before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Conference: Scientific Workshop  ” What happened in southern Romania and Black sea when the Mediterranean Sea desiccated 5.6 Ma ago”, Bucarest, Romania, 29 February – 1 March 2008, Abstract volume, Page 6. Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre...

Causes and process of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Conference: Scientific Workshop  ” What happened in southern Romania and Black sea when the Mediterranean Sea desiccated 5.6 Ma ago”, Bucarest, Romania, 29 February – 1 March 2008, Abstract volume, Pages 33-35. Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges...

Le Rhône et le Danube : témoins onshore majeurs de la crise de salinité messinienne : conséquences sur la véritable extension du périmètre affecté par la crise.

Conference: Scientific Workshop  ” What happened in southern Romania and Black sea when the Mediterranean Sea desiccated 5.6 Ma ago”, Bucarest, Romania, 29 February – 1 March 2008, Abstract volume, Pages 6-8. Authors: Georges Clauzon, 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.

Conference: Scientific Workshop  ” What happened in southern Romania and Black sea when the Mediterranean Sea desiccated 5.6 Ma ago”, Bucarest, Romania, 29 February – 1 March 2008, Abstract volume, p.11. Authors: Gilles Escarguel, Speranta-Maria...

Stratigraphic architecture, Sedimentology and Structure of the Vourakios Gilbert-Type Fan Delta, Gulf of Corinthe, Grece.

Article: In “Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins: A Tribute to Peter Friend”,  Editors(s): Gary Nichols, Ed Williams, Chris Paola. Authors: Mary Ford, Edward A. Williams, Fabrice Malartre, Speranta-Maria Popescu.    Abstract: In the Aegion...

Chronology of the Messinian events and paleogeography of Mediterranean region s.l.

Article: IN “The Messinian Salinity Crisis from mega-deposits to microbiology – A consensus report”, 2007. N° 33 in CIESM Workshop Monographs [F. Briand, Ed.], 168 p., CIESM Publisher, Monaco. Authors: Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria...

Earliest Zanclean age for the Colombacci and uppermost Di Tetto formations of the ‘‘latest Messinian’’ northern Apennines: New palaeoenvironmental data from the Maccarone section (Marche Province, Italy).

Article:Geobios,  Volume 40, Issue 3, May–June 2007, Pages 359-373. Authors:Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Frédéric Quillévéré, Maria Sütö-Szentai.  Abstract:The occurrence of planktonic foraminifers in the...

Climate variability in the Aral Sea basin (Central Asia) during the late Holocene based on vegetation changes.

Article:Quaternary International, Volume 67 , Issue 3, May 2007, Pages 357-370. Authors:Philippe Sorrel, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Stephan Klotz, Jean-Pierre Suc.  Abstract:High-resolution pollen analyses (∼ 50 yr) from sediment cores retrieved at Chernyshov Bay in the...

A Black Sea lowstand at 8500 yr B.P. indicated by a relict coastal dune system at a depth of 90 m below sea level.

Article: 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: Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, François Guichard,...

Neogene flora, vegetation and climate dynamics in Central Eastern Europe according to pollen record.

Article:”Deep time perspectives on climate change. Marrying the signal from computer models and biological proxies”. Eds. Williams, M., Haywood, A., Gregory, J.,TMS002 (Micropalaeontological Society Special Publication), Geological Society of London, p....

Water-level fluctuations in the Black Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum.

Article:In “The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement”, Eds. Yanko-Hombach V., Gilbert A.S., Panin N., Dolukhanov P.M., published by Springer Netherland, p.437 – 452.  Authors:Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu,...

Corrigendum to “Hydrographic development of the Aral Sea during the last 2000 years based on a quantitative analysis of dinoflagellate cysts”.

Article: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 242 , Issues 1-2,  24 November 2006, p. 137.   Authors: Philippe Sorrel, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Martin J.Head, Jean-Pierre Suc, Stephan Klotz, Heidi Oberhänsli.    Abstract: A recent publication...

Late Miocene and early Pliocene environments in the southwestern Black Sea region from high-resolution palynology of DSDP Site 380A (Leg 42B).

Article: Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 238, Issues 1-4, 29 August 2006, Pages 64-77.   Author: Speranta-Maria Popescu.   Abstract: A high-resolution palynological study has been performed on late Miocene (Messinian) and early Pliocene...

Early Pliocene vegetation changes forced by eccentricity-precession. Example from Southwestern Romania.

Article: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 238 , Issues 1-4, 29 august 2006, Pages 340-348.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc, Marie-France Loutre.   Abstract: Repetitive changes in Early Pliocene marine and continental...

Pollen record and integrated high-resolution chronology of the early Pliocene Dacic Basin (southwestern Romania).

Article: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 238 , Issues 1-4, 29 august 2006, Pages 79-80.   Authors: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Wout Krijgsman, Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Mariana Marunteanu, Toma Nica.   Abstract: An integrated...

How much did climate force the Messinian salinity crisis? Quantified climatic conditions from pollen records in the Mediterranean region.

Article:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 238, Issues 1–4, 29 August 2006, Pages 281-301. Authors:Séverine Fauquette, Jean-Pierre Suc, Adele Bertini, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Sophie Warny, Naïma Bachiri Taoufiq, Maria-Jesus Perez Villa, Hafida...

Hydrographic development of the Aral Sea during the last 2000 years based on a quantitative analysis of dinoflagellate cysts.

Article: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 234, Issues 2–4, 18 May 2006, Pages 304-327. Authors : Philippe Sorrel, Speranta- Maria Popescu, Martin James Head, Jean-Pierre Suc, Sthephan Klotz, Heidi Oberhänsli. Abstract: The Aral Sea Basin is a...

Transformation dans la végétation du Pliocène au Quaternaire aux latitudes moyenne de l’hémisphère Nord.

Conference: Colloque International INQUA – Q5, 1-3 February, 2006, Paris, France, p. 99. Author: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract: Les séquences polliniques d’Europe et de pourtour méditerranéen illustrent en grands détail les transformations...

Vegetation and climate reconstruction in the area of Black and Marmara seas according to pollen records.

Conference: EEDEN, State of the art, 16-18 November 2000, Lyon, France, p. 52.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Simona Boroi, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Stephan Klotz.    Abstract: An intensive effort in high-resolution pollen analysis was performed on...

Relative sea-level and climate fluctuations in the Marmara and Black Seas during the last 18 kyrs.

Conference:ASSEMBLAGE European Project workshop, November 16-19, 2005, Hamburg (Germany). Author:Speranta-Maria Popescu, Stephan Klotz, Martin J. Head. Abstract:We have studied pollen grains, dinoflagellate cysts and palynofacies from the two cores BLKS 98-10 (Black...

Neogene climate evolution in Europe and peri-Mediterranean regions according to pollen data.

Conference:12th Congress RCMNS, 6 -11 September, Vienna, Austria Author:Jean-Pierre Suc, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Séverine Fauquette, Stefan Klotz. Abstract:An intensive effort was done in the last 30 years for a better knowledge of vegetation...

Vegetation, climate and cyclostratigraphy in Central Paratethys during Late Miocene – Early Pliocene.

Conference: 12th Congress RCMNS, 6-11 September, Vienna, Austria. Author: Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract: High-resolution palynology was performed on five well-dated Zanclean sections from southeastern Europe such as Lupoaia in the Dacic Basin (SW Romania) (Popescu...

Late Miocene – Early Pliocene Mediterranean – Paratethys relationships. The Mediterranean Lago Mare deciphered.

Conference: 12th Congress RCMNS, 6-11 September, Vienna, Austria.   Author: Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Speranta-Maria Popescu.   Abstract: Some classical signatures of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Mediterranean Basin (Clauzon, 1999) have been founded in...

Influence of Mediterranean sea-level changes on the Dacic Basin (Eastern Paratethys) during the late Neogene: the Mediterranean Lago Mare facies deciphered.

Article: Basin Research, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 437-462.   Author: Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Mariana Marunteanu, Jean-Loup Rubino, Florian Marinescu, Mihaela Carmen Melinte.     Abstract: A recently published scenario...

Paleoclimatic changes in the Aral Sea during the past 1900 years. The vegetation pattern and the moisture conditions.

Poster:European Geosciences Union 2005, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 04444. Author:Philippe Sorrel, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Jean-Pierre Suc.  Abstract:Paleoenvironmental data from Central Asia are of major importance for global paleoclimatic studies and...

Hydrographic development of the Aral Sea during the past 1900 years: results based on a dinoflagellate cyst quantitative analysis.

Conference:European Geosciences Union 2005, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 04114. Author:Philippe Sorrel, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Martin Head.  Abstract:The Aral Sea is an excellent site for studying the influence of climate, tectonics and anthropogenic...

Pollen record and climatic cycles in the North Mediterranean region since 2.7 Ma.

Article: In Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions : The Land-Ocean Evidence, eds.M.J. Head and P.L. Gibbard, Geological Societyof London, Special Publication 247, 1 January 2005, p. 147 – 159.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu.   Abstract: This...

Evidence from recent oceanographic surveys of a last rapid sea level rise of the Black Sea.

Article: CIESM 2004. Human records of recent geological evolution in the Mediterranean Basin: historical and archaeological evidence. CIESM Workshop Monograph n°24 (F. Briand, ed.), 152 p., CIESM Publisher, Monaco.   Author: Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, Nicolae...

The response of the vegetation in the Black Sea area, during the last 18 ka.

Conference:ASSEMBLAGE European Project,  October 2004, Varna, Bulgaria. Author:Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:The western Black Sea region is today characterised by two vegetation types: (1) mesophilous forests of Romania, Bulgaria and coastal Turkey (including some...

Hydrographic development of the Aral Sea during the past 1,500 yrs-preliminary results based on dinoflagellate cysts.

Conference:32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, Session: G-19.02 Climate and paleoenvironmental changes during the Quaternary: palynological evidence. Author:Philippe Sorrel, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Martin Head. Abstract:The Aral Sea...

Late Glacial-Holocene vegetation in the Black Sea.

Conference:32nd International Geological Congress, Florence , Italy, 20-28 August, Sessions  G-19.02 Climate and palaeoenvironmental changes during the Quaternay: palynologic evidenced  and T-29.08 Non-orbital climate changes in the Pleistocene. Authors:Simona Boroi,...

Vegetation, climate and cyclostratigraphy in Central Paratethys during Late Miocene – Early Pliocene.

Poster:32nd International Geological Congress, Florence (Italy), 20-28 August, 2004, Session 322- T26.01. Author:Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:High-resolution palynological analysis has been performed on five well-dated Early Pliocene sections from southeastern...

Late Messinian-Early Zanclean Mediterranean s.l. deposits as a response to outstanding sea-level changes.

Conference:32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August 2014, Session G21.11 – Sedimentary records of catastrophic events  Authors:Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:Major sea-level changes occurred in the...

Sea-level changes in the Black Sea region since 14 ka.

Conference:32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, Sessions: T-34.02 Sea-Level change since the last glacial maximum and G-19.02 Climate and paleoenvironmental changes during the Quaternary: palynological evidence Author:Speranta-Maria...

Was the Last rapid change in the Black Sea linked to a catastrophic event 7500 years ago ?

Conference:32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August 2004, Session  G03.03 – Coastline changes: interrelations of climate and geologic processes. Author:Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, Nicolae Panin, François Guichard, Speranta-Maria...

The Messinian-Zanclean cycle in the Northern Aegean Sea.

Conference:4th Congress “Environment and Identity in the Mediterranean “the Messinian salinity crisis, 19-25 July, 2004, Corté, France. Authors:Georges Clauzon, Jean-Pierre Suc, Fabienne Orszag-Sperber, Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:Several field trips have been...

How much did climate force the Messinian salinity crisis? Quantified climatic conditions from pollen records in the Mediterranean region.

Conference:4th  Congress “Environment and Identity in the Mediterranean – the Messinian Salinity Crisis”, Corte, France, 19-25 July, 2004. Authors:Séverine Fauquette, Jean-Pierre Suc, Adele Bertini, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Sophie Warny, Naima Bachiri...

The dinocysts new markers of Mediterranean – Paratethys connections before and after the Messinian salinity crisis.

Conference:4th Congress “Environment and Identity in the Mediterranean – the Messinian Salinity Crisis”, Corte, France, 19-25 July, 2004. Author:Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:Relationships between the Mediterranean Sea and the Paratethys realm are...

Miocene-Quaternary dinoflagellates cyst, morphological variability linked to environmental changes.

Conference:EEDEN, Dinoflagellate cysts: promising markers of Mediterranean–Paratethys relationships, Workshop, 17-20 April 2004,  Lyon, France. Author:Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract:After being isolated from the Mediterranean Sea, Paratethys evolved towards brackish...

Significance of the Messinian–Zanclean Lago Mare events in the Mediterranean Sea.

Conference: EEDEN, Dinoflagellate cysts: promising markers of Mediterranean–Paratethys relationships, 17-20 April 2004,  Lyon, France. Author: Jean-Pierre Suc, Georges Clauzon, Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract: Central Paratethys seems to have applied a strong...

The dinocysts, new proxy to understand the environmental changes in the Neogene of the Paratethys realm.

Conference:EEDEN, Environments and Ecosystems Dynamics of the Eurasian Neogene, Birth of the New World., 12-16 November 2003, Stara Lesna, Slovakia. Author:Speranta-Maria Popescu, Maria Süto-Szentai Abstract:Dinoflagellates are famous by respect both to their motile...

Holocene Black Sea environments according to palynology.

Conference: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, No. 6, September 2003, p. 462?   Author: Speranta-Maria Popescu, Martin J. Head, Gilles Lericollais.   Abstract: The Mediterranean marine waters enterred the Black Sea during the Holocene,...

Was the last rapid sea level rise of the Black Sea linked to a catastrophic event recorded by Mankind ?

Conference: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, No. 6, September 2003, p. 462. Authors: Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, Nicolas Panin, François Guichard, Speranta-Maria Popescu. Abstract: Two IFREMER oceanographic surveys carried out in...

L’investigation palynologique du Cénozoïque passe par les herbiers.

Article: Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, Actes du colloque de Lyon, 20-22 Novembre 2002, Pages 67-87.   Authors: Jean-Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Speranta-Maria Popescu.   Abstract: Les palynologues du Cénozoïque qui se posent la question de...