Mediterranean salt: isotopes and ice. (Mediterranean Sea suffered 'salinity crisis' in Miocene epoch)

Science News | November 23, 1985| | Copyright

At the end of the Miocene epoch, 6 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea suffered a "salinity crisis." Its connections to other oceans were severed and, according to some estimates, the amount of seawater that evaporated was 30 times as great as the sea's present volume, leaving more than 1 million cubic kilometers of minerals and salts in the basin.

One idea, proposed last decade, to explain this event is that the Mediterranean became isolated by a global drop in sea level, brought on by the growth of ice sheets. While some lines of evidence support ice sheet ...

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