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Today, scientists call this the Messinian Salinity Crisis: in the dying days of the Miocene epoch, most of the Mediterranean died. But if, on a certain day about 5.3 million years ago ...

Today, scientists call this the Messinian Salinity Crisis: in the dying days of the Miocene epoch, most of the Mediterranean died. But if, on a certain day about 5.3 million years ago, you happened to ...

They named that age “Messinian” and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis. In the 1970s, scientists for the first time drilled deep below the Mediterranean into ...

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They named that age “Messinian” and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis. In the 1970s, scientists for the first time drilled deep below the Mediterranean into ...

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which formed 6 million years ago during a sharp increase in salinity dubbed the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Gypsum deposits form quickly, making them an excellent medium for fossils—the fossils ...

But to identify these microbial fossils we first need to prove we can identify similar fossils in places where we know such microbes existed — such as Mediterranean gypsum formations that developed ...

“The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean,” said Sellam. “This led to rapid evaporation, causing the sea to become hypersaline ...

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 ...

This was the Mediterranean’s state during what geologists call the Messinian Salinity Crisis, when the sea became cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and mostly evaporated under the hot sun.