Artistic representation of the Gibraltar sill rupture at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. (IMAGE)

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Artistic representation of the Gibraltar sill rupture at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

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Artistic representation of the Gibraltar sill rupture at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the final moments of this crisis, the level of the Mediterranean Sea was around 1 km lower than that of the Atlantic Ocean.

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