The Messinian evaporite deposit is a geological deposit of evaporites which was found on Sicily and named after the city of Messina. It was later found to underlie much of the bed of the Mediterranean. It was formed during the Messinian salinity crisis.
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Messinian — System Series Stage Age (Ma) Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger Neogene Pliocene … Wikipedia
Messinian salinity crisis — Events of the Cenozoic view • discuss • … Wikipedia
Messinian Event — Die Messinische Salinitätskrise (englisch: Messinian Event) ist der Name für einen Abschnitt der Erdgeschichte, in dem das Mittelmeer teilweise oder vollständig ausgetrocknet war. Hierbei lagerten sich in den tiefsten Meeresbecken bis zu drei… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Messinian erosional crisis — The Messinian Erosional Crisis is a pre evaporite phase of the central Mediterranean basin responding to a major drawdown of the Mediterranean seawater (the Messinian Salinity Crisis ). As outlined in numerous studies, erosional events along the… … Wikipedia
Evaporite — Cobble encrusted with halite evaporated from the Dead Sea, Israel. Evaporite ( / … Wikipedia
Mediterranean Ridge — Location of the ridge The Mediterranean Ridge is a wide ridge in the bed of the Mediterranean Sea, running along a rough quarter circle from Calabria, south of Crete, to the southwest corner of Turkey, and from there eastwards south of Turkey,… … Wikipedia
Messinische Salinitätskrise — Die Messinische Salinitätskrise (italienisch: Crisi di salinità del Messiniano) ist der Name für einen Abschnitt der Erdgeschichte, in dem das Mittelmeer teilweise oder vollständig ausgetrocknet war. Hierbei lagerten sich in den tiefsten… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Geology of the Iberian Peninsula — The geology of the Iberian Peninsula consists of the study of the rock formations on the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar. The peninsula contains rocks from every age from Ediacaran to Recent, and almost… … Wikipedia
Sorbas basin — The Sorbas basin is a sedimentary basin around the town of Sorbas in south east Spain. It is believed to have been formed by extension, between two fault bounded blocks which rotated anti clockwise to take up the compression resulting from Europe … Wikipedia
Tertiary Period — Interval of geologic time, 65–1. 8 million years ago. It constitutes the first of the two periods of the Cenozoic Era, the second being the Quaternary. The Tertiary has five subdivisions: (from oldest to youngest) the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene … Universalium
