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History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis

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A history of geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean leading to the salinity crisis is outlined, based on the ‘desiccated deep-basin model’. An accurate portrayal of the crisis is presented, based on data from new drilling and studies of on-land geology.

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  1. Geological Institute, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

    Kenneth J. Hsü

  2. Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France

    Lucien Montadert

  3. Geologisches Institut, Universitat Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Daniel Bernoulli

  4. Istituto di Geologia, Università Milano, Italy

    Maria Bianca Cita

  5. Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

    Albert Erickson

  6. Earth Sciences Board, University of California, Santa Cruz, California

    Robert E. Garrison

  7. Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, UK

    Robert B. Kidd

  8. Laboratoire de Gèologie Dynamique, Université de Paris, Paris, France

    Frederic Mèlierés

  9. Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, FRG

    Carla Müller

  10. Department of Geology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

    Ramil Wright

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Hsü, K., Montadert, L., Bernoulli, D. et al. History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis. Nature 267, 399–403 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/267399a0

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