Gypsum Formation during the Messinian Salinity Crisis: an Alternative Model

Arjen Grothe1, Wout Krijgsman1, Francesca Sangiorgi1, Iuliana Vasiliev2, Chris van Baak1, Mariette Wolthers3, Marius Stoica4, Gert-Jan Reichart1,5 and Gareth Davies6, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (3)Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)University of Bucharest, Department of Geology, Bucharest, Romania, (5)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (6)VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands