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Messinian salinity crisis

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  1. A geological event, characterized by the partial desiccation of the Mediterranean basin.

    • Our isotopic and sedimentologic correlations demonstrate that the latest Miocene expansion of the West Antarctic ice sheet preceded and most likely precipitated the Messinian salinity crisis.
    • It is an evaporitic and carbonate unit which marks a peripheral manifestation of the Messinian salinity crisis, during which huge volumes of evaporites were produced in the deep Mediterranean basins.

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