Figure 1: Maps illustrating Late Miocene Atlantic ... changes from subduction-related to intraplate-type during the Messinian. Figure 3: Trace-element and isotope ratios change during the ...

Scientists have identified two phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis that transformed the Mediterranean into a massive salt basin 5 million years ago. Analysis of chlorine isotopes reveals drastic ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment provides compelling evidence that the Zanclean ...

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Artistic representation of the breach of the Gibraltar sill at the end of the Messinian salinity crisis. In the final moments of this crisis, the level of the Mediterranean Sea was around one ...

Until, that is, this roughly 600,000-year-long period known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis suddenly came to an end. At first, scientists believed that the water’s return to the Mediterranean ...

Chlorine isotopes constrain a major drawdown of the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Nature Communications , 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53781-6 Cite This Page : ...

The flood, known as the Zanclean flood, is thought to have ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), a period during which the Mediterranean Sea became partially dried up. Marine scientists have ...

The Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis—a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago.