The relationship between third order eustatic sea-level changes and the global carbon cycle: A case study from the Oligocene and Miocene deposits of the Maltese Islands. This research project employs a multi-disciplinary (geological and geochemical) approach to understand long term and abrupt climatic changes during the Cainozoic. It will construct a multi-proxy stratigraphy of the Late Oligocene to early Miocene carbonate deposits of the Maltese Islands.