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Expedition 401 citations*

IODP publications

Scientific Prospectus

Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., and Williams, T., 2023. Expedition 401 Scientific Prospectus: Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.401.2023

Preliminary Report

Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. Expedition 401 Preliminary Report: Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.401.2024

Proceedings volume

Expedition reports

Pending.

Expedition research results

Pending.

Journals/Books

Pending.

Conferences

Blättler, C.L., Tanaka, E., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. A deep subsurface paleobrine derived from the Messinian salinity crisis in the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean). Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 9–13 December 2024.

Bulian, F., Pereira Dias, C.A., Flecker, R., Sierro, F.J., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Science Party, 2025. Planktic and benthic foraminifers of the Alboran Basin: a record of environmental change before, during, and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Presented at the SALT Ages conference, Krakow, Poland, 31 March–4 April 2025.

Craig, P., Balestra, B., Chin, S., Amarathunga, U., Das, M., Sierro, F.J., Yousfi, M.Z., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., Brothers, A., and the IODP Leg 401 Scientific Team, 2024. Biogeographic distribution of living coccolithophore communities retrieved during the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 401, Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 9–13 December 2024.

Crawford, A., Warny, S., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Feakins, S.J., Zhang, Y., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 participants, 2025. Mediterranean vegetation and climatic changes detected by palynomorphs at site IODP U1610 along the Southern Iberian margin: Preliminary results. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting AASP – The Palynological Society, Rabat, Morocco, 22–26 April 2025.

Das, M., Amarathunga, A., Sierro, S., Yousfi, M.Z., Balestra, B., Chin, S., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. The Mediterranean–Atlantic gateway exchange: preliminary results based on microfossil data from the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 401. Presented at the Indian Colloquium on Micropaleontology and Stratigraphy, Delhi, India, 17–19 October 2024.

Ducassou, E., Flecker, R., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Participants, 2024. Gateway to a salt giant: a new record of the Messinian Salinity Crisis from the westernmost part of the Mediterranean. Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 April 2024. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-22574

Ducassou, E., Moal-Darrigade, P., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Alvarez Zarikian, C., Flecker, R., Williams, T., the Expedition 401 Science Party, Kaboth-Bahr, S., Steur, P., Lourens, L., Perello, M.-C., Charlier, K., and Giraudeau, J., 2025. Reconstruction of the timing and location of the Mediterranean Outflow Water from the Late Miocene to Holocene around the Iberian Peninsula. Presented at the 38th IAS Meeting, Huelva, Spain, 26–28 June 2025.

Feakins, S.J., Feng, X., Liu, Z., Zhang, Y., Schubert, B., Teixeira, M., Sierro, F.J., George, S.C., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Warny, S., Noto, D., Berke, M.A., Yousfi, M.Z., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. Terrigenous plant material in the Iberian Margin detects Late Miocene changes in the Mediterranean Gateway. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 9–13 December 2024.

Feakins, S.J., Zhang, Y., Feng, X., Liu, Z., Lievens, K., Schubert, B., George, S.C., Teixeira, M., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Sierro, F.J., Warny, S., Noto, D., Berke, M.A., Yousfi, M.Z., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2025. Miocene flash floods & Mediterranean gateway changes detected by plant biomarkers along the southern Iberian margin. Presented at the 32nd International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG), Porto, Portugal, 7–11 September 2025.

Feakins, S.J., Zhang, Y., Liu, Z., Feng, X., Schubert, B.A., Berke, M.A., George, S.C., Noto, D., Sierro, F.J., Teixeira, M., Warny, S., Zakaria Yousfi, M., Flecker, R.M., Ducassou, E., Williams, T.J., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. Terrestrial biomarker characterization of late Neogene sediments recovered by IODP Expedition 401 to the Mediterranean Gateway. Presented at the Gordon research conference on organic geochemistry, New Hampshire, USA, August 2024.

Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Participants, 2024. Preliminary results of IODP Expedition 401, the first element of the Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Gateway (IMMAGE) Land-2-Sea drilling project. Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 April 2024. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4237

Flecker, R., Adloff, M., Mills, B., Monteiro, F., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., Sierro, F., Rogerson, M., Herbert, T., Hodell, D., Abrantes, F., Zarikian, C.A., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2025. Framing the modelling experiments that evaluate the global impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Presented at the SALT Ages conference, Krakow, Poland, 31 March–4 April 2025.

Ilgenfritz, T., Warny, S., Miao, Y., Zhang, Z., Bart, M.P., Crawford, A., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T. and the IODP Expedition 401 participants, 2025. Reconstruction of Mio-Pliocene fire history off the coast of Portugal: results from classic palynological analyses and AI-generated microcharcoal analyses. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting AASP – The Palynological Society, Rabat, Morocco, 22–26 April 2025.

Jimenez Moreno, G., Warny, S., Crawford, A., Feakins, S.J., Zhang.Y., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T. and the IODP Expedition 401 participants, 2025. Palynological results and preliminary environmental inferences for the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of IODP Expedition 401 Site U1609A on the western Portuguese margin. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting AASP – The Palynological Society, 22-26 April 2025, 22–26 April 2025.

Kaji, T., Tanaka, E., Kuwahara, Y., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., IODP Expedtion 401 Scientists, and Kato, Y., 2025. Changes in the Atlantic-Mediterranean Marine System During the Messinian Salinity Crisis Based on Os isotopic ratios. Presented at the JPGU 2025 Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 25–30 May 2025.

Noto, D., Warny, S., Feakins, S.J., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., Amarathunga, U., Balestra, B., Berke, M.A., Blättler, C.L., Chin, S., Das, M., Egawa, K., Natacha, F., George, S.C., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Krijgsman, W., Li, Z., Liu, J., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Raad, F., Sierro, F.J., Standring, P., Stine, J., Tanaka, E., Xu, X., Yin, S., Yousfi, M.Z., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. Vegetation and dinoflagellate response to the Messinian Salinity Crisis determined from an Iberian margin palynological record. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 9–13 December 2024.

Noto, D., Warny, S., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 scientists, 2024. Preliminary palynological results from IODP Expedition 401: A proxy for the Mediterranean-Atlantic gateway evolution. Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting AASP-The Palynological Society, 24–28 June 2024.

Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Egawa, K., Fabregas, N., George, S., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Li, Z., Noto, D., Standring, P., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and IODP Expedition 401 participants, 2024. Ichnological and sedimentological analysis from IODP Expedition 401 sites: A tool to approach for the Miocene-Pliocene Mediterranean-Atlantic paleoenvironmental evolution. Presented at the Spanish Palaeontological Congress, October 2024.

Stine, J.M.G.M., Feinberg, J.M., Bilardello, D., Standring, P., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. The effects of marine redox variability on magnetic mineralogy: an environmental magnetic study of Late Miocene sediments from IODP Expedition 401, Site U1385. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 9–13 December 2024.

Wulandari, I., Feakins, S.J., Berke, M.A., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, and George, S.C., 2025. Organic geochemical insights into organic matter sources and paleoenvironments across the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Presented at the 32nd International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG), Porto, Portugal, 7–11 September 2025.

Xu, X., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., Raad, F., Stine, J., Teixeira, M., Yin, S., Feakins, S., Blättler, C., Egawa, K., Tanaka, E., Lin, W., and The IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. Physical properties records of sedimentary successions recovered in the Gulf of Cadiz and Alboran Basin: preliminary results of IODP Expedition 401. Presented at the JPGU 2024 Meeting, Chiba, Japan, 26–31 May 2024.

Xu, X., Lin, W., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Sakai, Y., Tanaka, E., Egawa, K., and IODP Expedition 401 scientists, 2025. Micro-CT characterization of pre-MSC and early-MSC sediments recovered from the Gulf of Cádiz (U1610) and the Alborán Basin (U1611). Presented at the Kochi University, 3–4 March, 2025.

Xu, X., Lin, W., Tanaka, E., Sakai, Y., Zhu, J., Blättler, C., Raad, F., Stine, J., Teixeira, M., Yin, S., Egawa, K., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Science Party, 2025. Hydraulic properties of pre-Mediterranean Salinity Crisis (MSC) and early-MSC sediments recovered from the Gulf of Cádiz and the Alborán Basin. Presented at the JPGU 2025 Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 25–30 May 2025.

Zhang, Y., Feakins, S.J., Berke, M.A., George, S.C., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Sierro, F.J., Teixeira, M., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the IODP Expedition 401 Scientists, 2024. Plant wax reconstruction of Neogene vegetation and hydroclimate from Expedition 401, Site U1609 on the western Portuguese margin. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 9–13 December 2024.

Zhang, Z., Schieber, J., Li, Z., Ducassou, E., Egawa, K., Fabregas, N., George, S.C., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Noto, D., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Standring, P., Flecker, R., Williams, T., and Expedition 401 Science Party, 2025. Preliminary results from petrographic examination of pelagic deposits from Site U1385 (IODP Expedition 401). Presented at the 38th IAS Meeting, Huelva, Spain, 26–28 June 2025.


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