When the Mediterranean almost disappeared: the Messinian salinity crisis
About 5.5 million from years ago a critical and almost catastrophic transformation has reshaped the Mediterranean Sea: this geological event, which lasted almost 700,000 years and known as “Messinian salinity crisis” (from the name of the geological period in which it occurred) and resulted evaporation of almost all the water in the Mediterraneantransforming it into a vast expanse of salt ...