@article {3788, title = {High resolution biostratigraphy and paleoecology during the early to late Pliocene in the Pissuri basin (Cyprus Island)}, journal = {Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece}, volume = {XLIII}, year = {2010}, pages = {763-772}, abstract = {

The Pissouri basin (Cyprus Island) corresponds to a small tectonically controlled depression elongated\ NNW-SSE and widening southward in the direction of the deep Mediterranean domain. In the\ centre of the basin, the section Pissouri South, about 100 m thick, consists of well-preserved cyclic\ marine sediments including laminated brownish layers alternating with grey homogeneous marls.\ Plankton biostratigraphy (calcareous nannofossil and planktonic foraminifera) revealed a remarkable\ number of biovents bracketing the Zanclean-Piacenzian boundary.\ In particular the Highest Occurrence (HO) of Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus suggests the presence\ of NN14/15-NN16 nannofossil biozone boundary, dated at 3.84 Ma. Additionally the defined\ planktonic foraminiferal MPL3-MPL4a and MPL4a-MPL4b zone boundaries point to ages between\ 3.81 and 3.57 Ma, in Pissouri North section. Zanclean/Piacenzian boundary (3.6 Ma) is placed at\ 75.8 m from the base of the section, considering Discoaster pentaradiatus top paracme (3.61 Ma)\ and Globorotalia crassaformis first influx (3.6 Ma) bioevents.\ The cyclically developed sapropelic layers around the Zanclean {\textendash} Piacenzian boundary suggest a\ climate characterized by a period of warm temperate conditions and a highly stratified water column\ that occurred at times of precession minima.

}, url = {http://www.geosociety.gr/images/arxeio-teuxwn/GSG_XLIII_2.pdf}, author = {Triantaphyllou, M., and Antonarakou, A., and Drinia, H., and Dimiza, M., and Kontakiotis, G., and Theodorou, G., and Tsiolakis, E.,} }