When the Mediterranean Sea Disappearred

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Believe it or not, the Mediterranean Sea that you are familiar with was once a dry 'desert' in the distant past. About 6 million years ago, the Mediterranean evaporated! Let's explore this fascinating story in this video.

#MediterraneanSea #MessinianSalinityCrisis #evaporation
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[References]
- D. Garcia-Castellanos et al., (2009). "Messinian salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar arc."
- Daniel Garcia-Castellanos et al., (2010). "Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Insights from river incision models and geophysical evidence."
- Christian Ohneiser et al., (2015). "Antarctic glacio-eustatic contributions to late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation and reflooding."
- Wout Krijgsman et al., (2018). "The Gibraltar Corridor: Watergate of the Messinian Salinity Crisis."

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(1)Party by OferKoren
(2)Dark Acoustic Western Groove by envato
(3)Voltage by Rex Banner
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
(5)Howling at the Moon by D Fine Us
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Top marks. Keep up the good work.
Great to see you sourcing references in the description, I looked into a couple and it was fascinating. I had heard of the plan to dam Gibraltar but never thought about it happening naturally in the distant past.

jonofthehill
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Wow, didn't realize your channel was so small. Quality video, subbed.

AnomalousCanid
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Not bad... just one correction... the Southern Ocean is the ANTArctic... the Arctic is in the North

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