Scientists analyzed Mediterranean salt deposits to uncover the Messinian Salinity Crisis that caused massive water loss and ...

Scientists may have discovered how the Mediterranean Sea vanished, according to a new study revealing it happened in two ...

Around 5.5 million years ago, almost three quarters of the Mediterranean Sea evaporated into the air – and new research helps ...

The Mediterranean Sea today is a critical part of the world’s water cycle, but more freshwater evaporates from it than is ...

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 ...

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 : ...

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 ...

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.