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The two accumulation phases of the Mediterranean salt layer during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the first phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean Basin filled with brine; in the second phase, salt accumulated in a Mediterranean completely isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, as a result of the significant drop in sea level in the western and eastern Mediterranean sub-basins. © Giovanni Aloisi

How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years...

Isobath map of the eastern Alborán basin with the volcanic edifice location. Orange lines show the main flood paths. (Image: García-Castellanos et al, 2020, Earth-Sciences Reviews)

New pieces of evidence found in the Alborán Sea possibly related...

Scientific drilling at Wadi Manasah to throw light on oceanic plates

Plate tectonics without jerking

Massive Ancient Tectonic Slab Found Below the Indian Ocean

Faults control the amount of water flowing into the Earth during...

Activity on seafloor linked to icy ebb and flow on surface

New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features

The floor of the ocean comes into better focus

How Earth’s Pacific plates collapsed

Mariana Trench “Deepest Part of the Ocean”

Heating Things Up: What Drives Elevation Along Mid-Ocean Ridges?

What sculpted Africa’s margin?

Rocky Mountains Originated from Previously Unknown Oceanic Plate

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