From desert to deluge in the Mediterranean

Judith A. McKenzie ()
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Judith A. McKenzie: Geological Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6745, 613-614

Abstract: The Messinian salinity crisis was a dramatic event during which the Mediterranean became cut off from, then reconnected to, the Atlantic. The beginning and end of the episode have been securely dated, through an approach known as astrochronology, meaning that debate about the causes has a clearer frame of reference.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/23131

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