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<p>The <b>Messinian salinity crisis</b> (also referred to as the <b>Messinian event</b>, and in its latest stage as the <b>Lago Mare event</b>) was an event in which the <a href="page.php?w=Mediterranean_Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a> went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete <a href="page.php?w=desiccation">desiccation</a> (drying-up) throughout the latter part of the <a href="page.php?w=Messinian">Messinian</a> age of the <a href="page.php?w=Miocene">Miocene</a> epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 <a href="page.php?w=Year">Ma</a> (million years ago). It</p><p>
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