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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

#MessinianSalinityCrisis #Messinian #Paleogeography #RegionalGeology

You want #data? You get data!!
New database with #fossil occurrences across the #messinian salinity crisis, led by @kagiadi
#paleontology #essd
https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2024-75/

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"

bathymetric map of the seafloor south east of Cyprus

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 #underwater #canyon #discovered #seamount deep #MediterraneanSea #Messinian

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

#MessinianErosionalCrisis #Messinian #Paleogeography #RegionalGeology