Chlorine isotopes reveal a two-phase salt deposition in the Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis: an initial, brine-filled phase, followed by a rapid evaporative drawdown ...
Scientists analyzed Mediterranean salt deposits to uncover the Messinian Salinity Crisis that caused massive water loss and ...
The Mediterranean Sea today is a critical part of the world's water cycle, but more freshwater evaporates from it than is replenished by rivers.
Recent studies reveal that the Messinian Salinity Crisis led to the Mediterranean Sea becoming a vast salt basin through a ...
During the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Sea, which led to a period ...
Scientists have long sought to understand the Messinian Salinity Crisis. During this ecological catastrophe... | Earth And The Environment ...
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 ...
Around 5.5 million years ago, almost three quarters of the Mediterranean Sea evaporated into the air – and new research helps to explain what caused this event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis ...