How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago
A new study has highlighted just how significantly the level of 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.
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