Growing Antarctic ice sheet caused ancient Mediterranean to dry up
Dunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Nov 17, 2015 - An international research team led by a scientist at New Zealand's University of Otago has resolved the mystery of the processes involved in the Mediterranean Sea drying up around 5.6 million years ago. The event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), saw the Mediterranean become a 1.5km deep basin for around 270,000 years. It also left a kilometers-deep layer of salt due to seawat ... more
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