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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Kilometric sea level changes during the Messinian salinity crisis<br><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.ads9752" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/s</span><span class="invisible">ciadv.ads9752</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinia</span><span class="invisible">n_salinity_crisis</span></a></p><p>* event: Mediterranean Sea desiccation 5.9-5.3 million years ago<br>* left deep dry basin 3-5 km deep below normal sea level<br>* Messinian salts est. 1M+ cubic km</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mediterranean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mediterranean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Messinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Messinian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dessication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dessication</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mediterranean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mediterranean</span></a> Sea <a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/colossal-underwater-canyon-discovered-near-seamount-deep-in-the-mediterranean-sea" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/r</span><span class="invisible">ivers-oceans/colossal-underwater-canyon-discovered-near-seamount-deep-in-the-mediterranean-sea</span></a> </p><p>Discovery of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Messinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Messinian</span></a> Eratosthenes Canyon in the deep Levant Basin <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818123002928" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S0921818123002928</span></a></p><p>"around 6 million years ago... the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MediterraneanSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediterraneanSea</span></a> became isolated from the world's <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a> and dried up for roughly 700,000 years... As <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaLevels</span></a> dropped, increasingly salty currents eroded the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seabed</span></a>... researchers now describe a giant U-shaped <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/canyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canyon</span></a> located 120 km south of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cyprus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cyprus</span></a>"</p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Colossal underwater canyon discovered near seamount deep in the Mediterranean Sea<br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/colossal-underwater-canyon-discovered-near-seamount-deep-in-the-mediterranean-sea" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/r</span><span class="invisible">ivers-oceans/colossal-underwater-canyon-discovered-near-seamount-deep-in-the-mediterranean-sea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/underwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>underwater</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canyon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discovered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discovered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seamount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seamount</span></a> deep <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediterraneanSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediterraneanSea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Messinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Messinian</span></a></p>