Messinian salinity crisis

Proper noun

 * 1)  A geological event, characterised by the partial desiccation of the Mediterranean basin, which occurred throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, and finally ended with the Zanclean flood.
 * 2) * 2022, David Bice, Enrico Tavarnelli, 8: The influence of the Messinian salinity crisis on the tectonic evolution of the Northern Apennines, Christian Koeberl, Philippe Claeys, Alessandro Montanari (editors), From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid,, Special Paper 557, page 115,
 * The Messinian salinity crisis (5.85–5.35 Ma) represents a nearly unprecedented unloading and loading event. During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, two important things happened in terms of surface load changes—the accumulation of thick evaporites represent a load addition, while the desiccation of the Mediterranean represents a load subtraction.
 * 1) * 2022, David Bice, Enrico Tavarnelli, 8: The influence of the Messinian salinity crisis on the tectonic evolution of the Northern Apennines, Christian Koeberl, Philippe Claeys, Alessandro Montanari (editors), From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid,, Special Paper 557, page 115,
 * The Messinian salinity crisis (5.85–5.35 Ma) represents a nearly unprecedented unloading and loading event. During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, two important things happened in terms of surface load changes—the accumulation of thick evaporites represent a load addition, while the desiccation of the Mediterranean represents a load subtraction.
 * 1) * 2022, David Bice, Enrico Tavarnelli, 8: The influence of the Messinian salinity crisis on the tectonic evolution of the Northern Apennines, Christian Koeberl, Philippe Claeys, Alessandro Montanari (editors), From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid,, Special Paper 557, page 115,
 * The Messinian salinity crisis (5.85–5.35 Ma) represents a nearly unprecedented unloading and loading event. During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, two important things happened in terms of surface load changes—the accumulation of thick evaporites represent a load addition, while the desiccation of the Mediterranean represents a load subtraction.

Translations

 * French: crise de salinité messinienne
 * German: Messinische Salinitätskrise
 * Italian: crisi di salinità del Messiniano, evento messiniano