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    In the Messinian salinity crisis (also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event) the Mediterranean Sea went into...
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    completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million...
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  • North American Land Mammal Age. During the Messinian, around 6 million years ago, the Messinian salinity crisis took place, which brought about repeated...
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    Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. This flooding ended the Messinian salinity crisis and reconnected the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, although...
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    almost completely evaporate. This event is referred to as the "Messinian salinity crisis". Then, at the Miocene–Pliocene boundary, the Strait of Gibraltar...
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    (debated) episodes of sea drawdown and re-flooding known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which ended when the Atlantic last re-flooded the basin at the...
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    between the Miocene and the Pliocene is also the time of the Messinian salinity crisis. During the Late Pliocene, the Himalayas became less active in...
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  • (the "Messinian Salinity Crisis"). As outlined in numerous studies, erosional events along the margins of the Mediterranean Basin during the Messinian timespan...
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    the Mediterranean Basin and end the Messinian salinity crisis, a period about 5.96 Ma ago in the Messinian Age of the Miocene Epoch when the Mediterranean...
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    abundance of evidence that the Mediterranean Sea dried up during the Messinian Salinity Crisis when its level dropped by 2 to 3 miles (3.2 to 4.9 km) below the...
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  • L'Atalante basin. It was formed during the Messinian salinity crisis. Sonnenfeld, Peter; Finetti, Icilio (1985). Messinian Evaporites in the Mediterranean: A...
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    arrived after the evaporation of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (around 5.96-5.33 million years ago). Myotragus is represented...
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    conjugate Angola/Gabon margins forming many salt domes. During the Messinian salinity crisis (Late Miocene), thick salt layers were formed as the Mediterranean...
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    preceded by Zanclean Age The Miocene Epoch is subdivided into six ages: Messinian Age, preceded by Tortonian Age Serravallian Age Langhian Age Burdigalian...
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    nearly complete desiccation of the Mediterranean Basin, the Messinian salinity crisis. Eurasia and Africa were then again separated with the Zanclean Flood...
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    Mediterranean area about 5.5 million years ago, around the time of the Messinian salinity crisis. The Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center at Ghent...
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  • years ago, at the beginning of the Zanclean age that ended the Messinian salinity crisis. The flood occurred when Atlantic waters found their way through...
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    Camarinal Sill (category Messinian)
    fluvial erosion during the desiccation of the Mediterranean (Messinian salinity crisis).[citation needed] Marine waters must climb to that depth when...
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    became a lake that, over the course of time, dried up during the Messinian salinity crisis. The Atlantic Ocean then broke through the Strait of Gibraltar...
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    been discovered within these sediments. During the late-Miocene Messinian salinity crisis, when the Mediterranean Sea was a closed basin and evaporated...
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  • Mediterranean Sea dried up for hundreds of thousand years in the Messinian salinity crisis. Along with these major geological events, Africa saw the appearance...
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    Sea. In the last period of the Miocene Epoch, the Messinian (7–5 mya), the Messinian salinity crisis, a near drying of the Mediterranean, was caused by...
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    after having previously nearly completely desiccated during the Messinian salinity crisis. The cliffs lie between two sandy beaches and are a limestone...
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    formations are from earlier sea level drops, most notably the Messinian salinity crisis. Similarly, karst developed in Apulia from the Apulian Carbonate...
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    originally colonised Mallorca during the Messinian stage of the Late Miocene, when during the Messinian salinity crisis (5.96–5.33 million years ago) the Mediterranean...
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  • tribe. c. 6 Ma – Australopithecines diversify. c. 5.96–5.33 Ma – Messinian Salinity Crisis: the precursor of the current Strait of Gibraltar closes repeatedly...
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    evidence for the ancient desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea, the Messinian salinity crisis. After being operated for fifteen years, Glomar Challenger's active...
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    which were flooded to form calanques, might date back to the Messinian salinity crisis between 5.96 and 5.32 million years ago. During this period of...
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    Their ancestors could have reached the island in the time of the Messinian salinity crisis. Mammals of Crete include the vulnerable kri-kri, Capra aegagrus...
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    mammals species found in the Almenara site, deposited during the Messinian salinity crisis, together with Macaca sp., Bovidae indet., cf. Nyctereutes sp...
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