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    Uplift of the shores of the western Mediterranean due to Messinian desiccation and flexural isostasy

    During the Messinian Stage (5.5 Myr, Miocene/Pliocene boundary) the 4.2×1023 m3 of water that now fills the Mediterranean evaporated. Evidence for this includes palaeogorges 1 km below the present Nile and Rhone ...

    Sonya E. Norman, Clement G. Chase in Nature (1986)