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Messinian salinity crisis

The Messinian salinity crisis (also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event) was an event in which the Mediterranean Sea dried up, in a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.

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has cause · 26
Messinian salinity crisis → Aegean Arc, Africa, Africa's, African, As, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, Calabrian Arc, Eurasia, European, Gibraltar, Gibraltar Arc, However, Iberian, In, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea, Messinian, Miocene, Several
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Messinian salinity crisis → Accessed, ArchivedMessinian, Geology, Ian West, Internet Archive, Lecture, Media, Mediterranean Dried Up, Messinian, Rob Butler, Sicily, The Messinian Salinity Crisis, When, Wikimedia CommonsArizona University, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
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Messinian salinity crisis → Denizot, Earlier, However, Late Miocene, Mediterranean, Messinian, Ruggieri, Seismic, The, This
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Messinian salinity crisis → Balearic Islands, Due, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean, Myotragus, North Africa, The, The Messinian

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mediterranean basin sea messinian would water level atlantic gibraltar strait years desiccation crisis miocene ma time dry salt salinity million

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the Iberian plateinstance ofthe location of one of the tectonic boundaries between the African plate and the European plate and its southern fragments0.80text
the Balearic Islandsinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
where several animal speciesinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
such as the goat-antelope Myotragusinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
would continue to be isolated until the Holoceneinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
over 5 million years later.Dehydrated geographyThe notion of a completely waterless Mediterranean Sea has some corollaries.At the timeinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
the Strait of Gibraltar was not openinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
but other seawaysinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
over 5 million years laterinstance ofThe crisis also allowed the dispersal of terrestrial animals to remote landmasses0.80text
Messinian salinity crisishas causeSeveral0.60section
Messinian salinity crisishas causeMessinian0.60section
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