RT Journal Article T1 Estratigrafía y biomagnetoestratigrafía del Messiniense en la sección del Garruchal (Cuenca del Bajo Segura). Implicaciones para la crisis de salinidad del Mediterráneo T1 Messinian stratigraphy and biomagnetostratigraphy in the Garruchal section (Bajo Segura Basin). Implications forthe Mediterranean salinity crisis A1 Soria, Jesús M. A1 Caracuel, Jesús Esteban A1 Corbí, Hugo A1 Dinarès Turell, Jaume A1 Lancis, Carlos A1 Tent Manclús, José Enrique A1 Yébenes, Alfonso AB The Messinian and Pliocene stratigraphic record in the Garruchal section (Bajo Segura Basin) has beendivided into three allostratigraphic units, whose timing were established through combined calcareousnannoplankton biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy. The T-MI Unit (late Tortonian – Messinian) recordedthe pre-evaporitic marine sedimentation (pre-Messinian salinity crisis deposits). This Unit is limited at thetop by the intra-Messinian unconformity, representing a subaerial erosive phase related to a first majorsea-level fall. The MII Unit (late Messinian) is characterized by lagoonal sedimentation, related to the socalledLago Mare episode of the Mediterranean. At the top of this MII Unit is located the end-Messinianunconformity, caused by a second major sea-level fall. Over this unconformity lies the P Unit (early Pliocene),represented by marine deposit which marks a transgression, and the subsequent final of the Messiniansalinity crisis YR 2006 FD 2006 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/8468 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/8468 LA spa DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 30 may 2026