The Messinian salinity crisis (also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event) was a geological event during...

Messinian salinity crisis (MSC); the Rifian or possibly both gateways closed during the earlier Tortonian times, causing a "Tortonian salinity crisis" (from...

The Tortonian is in the geologic time scale an age or stage of the late Miocene that spans the time between 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma and 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma (million...

correlation of the ‘Salinity Crisis' stratigraphy. The basin was separated from the main Mediterranean basin during the Messinian salinity crisis; therefore the...

by the time of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, and the dwarfing may instead be a result of the Tortonian Salinity Crisis (7.8 - 7.3 Ma). Although earlier...

246 ± 0.005 Ma and 5.333 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago). It follows the Tortonian and is followed by the Zanclean, the first age of the Pliocene. The Messinian...

Sea to nearly completely evaporate, in an event called the Messinian salinity crisis. The Strait of Gibraltar opened and the Mediterranean refilled at the...

nappes during the Miocene Tortonian uplift. Olistrosome slump layers are exposed throughout the south of the country. Tortonian sandstone and limestone...

Gibraltar to deluge the Mediterranean Basin and end the Messinian salinity crisis, a period about 5.96 Ma ago in the Messinian Age of the Miocene Epoch...

Messinian period of the Miocene epoch, precipitated the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period when the Mediterranean Sea evaporated partly or completely...

Miocene Epoch is subdivided into six ages: Messinian Age, preceded by Tortonian Age Serravallian Age Langhian Age Burdigalian Age Aquitanian Age In different...

experienced a somewhat long dry period. A major event was the Messinian salinity crisis or dry Mediterranean. It was replenished with the Zanclean flood which...

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years ago). The Serravallian follows the Langhian and is followed by the Tortonian. It overlaps with the middle of the Astaracian European Land Mammal Mega...

created around 5.6 million years ago, at the time of the Messinian salinity crisis (mya). The researchers also found evidence of foraminifera, which were...

between the Miocene and the Pliocene is also the time of the Messinian salinity crisis. During the Late Pliocene, the Himalayas became less active in their...

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late Miocene, followed by northwest–southeast convergence from the late Tortonian to present. The Gibraltar Arc was formed during the Neogene due to a combination...

during the Messinian period of the Miocene, precipitating the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period when the Mediterranean Sea evaporated partly or completely...

have been dated to Late Tortonian times.: 138  Around 5.6 MYA, the Mediterranean region was hit by the Messinian salinity crisis.: 42  Sea levels dropped...

Mediterranean drastically dropped due to evaporation. During this Messinian salinity crisis gullies were cut deeply into the sediments exposed to the atmosphere...

Period: Middle Miocene. Geologic stage: Late Serravallian through early Tortonian ~12.00—11.6 Ma., approximately 0.4 million years. Animal age: Clarendonian...

reef in Cyprus: recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 213(1):103–118...

W. (2022). "Marine life in the Mediterranean during the Messinian salinity crisis: a paleoichthyological perspective". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia...

Andalusia): a bathyal fossil assemblage pre-dating the Messinian salinity crisis". Geobios. 59: 1–28. Bibcode:2020Geobi..59....1H. doi:10.1016/j.geobios...