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Messinian salinity crisis (Paleogeography 🦕)

The Messinian salinity crisis was an event in which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma. It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment samples from be...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis

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Messinian salinity crisis (Paleogeography 🦕)

The Messinian salinity crisis was an event in which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma. It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment samples from be...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis

#MessinianSalinityCrisis #Messinian #Paleogeography #RegionalGeology

Messinian erosional crisis (Paleogeography 🦕)

The Messinian Erosional Crisis is a phase in the Messinian evolution of the central Mediterranean basin resulting from major drawdown of the Mediterranean seawater. As outlined in numerous studies, erosional events along the margins of the Mediterranean Basin during the Messinian timespan, before and during the evaporit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_erosional_crisis

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Messinian salinity crisis (Paleogeography 🦕)

The Messinian salinity crisis was an event in which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma. It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment samples from be...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis

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Betic corridor (Paleogeography 🦕)

The Betic Corridor, or North-Betic Strait, was a strait of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean that once separated the Iberian plate from the Eurasian Plate through the Betic Cordillera. Its closure approximately 5.96 million years ago during the Messinian period of the Miocene epoch, precipitate...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betic_corridor

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Messinian salinity crisis (Paleogeography 🦕)

The Messinian salinity crisis was a geological event during which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma. It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin. Sediment sa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis

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Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the #Mediterranean Sea https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/colossal-underwater-canyon-discovered-near-seamount-deep-in-the-mediterranean-sea

Discovery of the #Messinian Eratosthenes Canyon in the deep Levant Basin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818123002928

"around 6 million years ago... the #MediterraneanSea became isolated from the world's #oceans and dried up for roughly 700,000 years... As #SeaLevels dropped, increasingly salty currents eroded the #seabed... researchers now describe a giant U-shaped #canyon located 120 km south of #Cyprus"