Messinian 1

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The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene; it spans the time between 7.246 and 5.332 million years ago.

  • 1.During the Messinian, around 6 million years ago, the Messinian salinity crisis took place, which brought about repeated desiccations of the Mediterranean Sea.

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