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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 ago

November 27, 2024

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 continental breakup

Activity on seafloor linked to icy ebb and flow on surface

January 29, 2016

New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features

January 14, 2016

The floor of the ocean comes into better focus

January 9, 2016

How Earth’s Pacific plates collapsed

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