The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), occurring between approximately 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, represents a watershed moment in Earth’s geological history.

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...

Is it possible for you to survive in the Late Miocene Epoch? In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A ...

Discover how the Dead Sea, Earth's lowest and saltiest lake, continues to build massive underground salt formations.

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s ...

The Dead Sea is one of the most unusual places on Earth. Located at the lowest point on the planet’s surface and known for ...

“The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean,” said Sellam.

A groundbreaking discovery off the coast of Italy has scientists excited about a potentially life-changing resource. Researchers have uncovered avast deposit of ancient freshwater beneath the Hyblaean ...

They chose the Mediterranean's famous gypsum formations, which formed 6 million years ago during a sharp increase in salinity dubbed the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Gypsum deposits form quickly ...

"The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean," said Sellam.