Geochemistry and sedimentology of the Mediterranean Sea / Геохимия и седиментология Средиземного моря

The Mediterranean Sea lies between Europe, Asia and Africa in an area famous for its ancient civilizations and cultural developments. It was an area where marine navigation was developed and where many trade routes intersected. The publication of one of the first monographs on marine geology and geography by Marsilli in 1725 suggests that the Mediterranean Sea was the cradle of marine geology. However, the systematic study of this great marine basin did not really begin until 1946 when investigations were carried out mainly by French, Swedish, Italian, American and German scientists. More than a thousand scientific papers, maps and monographs have been published on different problems of the geology of the Mediterranean Sea. Particular attention was paid to the geology of this basin after the discovery, during the Leg 13 of the Deep Sea Drilling proj ect, of the peculiar natural phenomenon of a thick accumulation of evaporite. <...>