<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Triantaphyllou, M.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antonarakou, A.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Drinia, H.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dimiza, M.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kontakiotis, G.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theodorou, G.,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsiolakis, E.,</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High resolution biostratigraphy and paleoecology during the early to late Pliocene in the Pissuri basin (Cyprus Island)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.geosociety.gr/images/arxeio-teuxwn/GSG_XLIII_2.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">XLIII</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">763-772</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;The Pissouri basin (Cyprus Island) corresponds to a small tectonically controlled depression elongated&amp;nbsp;NNW-SSE and widening southward in the direction of the deep Mediterranean domain. In the&amp;nbsp;centre of the basin, the section Pissouri South, about 100 m thick, consists of well-preserved cyclic&amp;nbsp;marine sediments including laminated brownish layers alternating with grey homogeneous marls.&amp;nbsp;Plankton biostratigraphy (calcareous nannofossil and planktonic foraminifera) revealed a remarkable&amp;nbsp;number of biovents bracketing the Zanclean-Piacenzian boundary.&amp;nbsp;In particular the Highest Occurrence (HO) of &lt;em&gt;Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus&lt;/em&gt; suggests the presence&amp;nbsp;of NN14/15-NN16 nannofossil biozone boundary, dated at 3.84 Ma. Additionally the defined&amp;nbsp;planktonic foraminiferal MPL3-MPL4a and MPL4a-MPL4b zone boundaries point to ages between&amp;nbsp;3.81 and 3.57 Ma, in Pissouri North section. Zanclean/Piacenzian boundary (3.6 Ma) is placed at&amp;nbsp;75.8 m from the base of the section, considering &lt;em&gt;Discoaster pentaradiatus&lt;/em&gt; top paracme (3.61 Ma)&amp;nbsp;and &lt;em&gt;Globorotalia crassaformis&lt;/em&gt; first influx (3.6 Ma) bioevents.&amp;nbsp;The cyclically developed sapropelic layers around the Zanclean – Piacenzian boundary suggest a&amp;nbsp;climate characterized by a period of warm temperate conditions and a highly stratified water column&amp;nbsp;that occurred at times of precession minima.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>