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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 ...