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Between 6 and 5.3 million years ago (mya), the Mediterranean Sea dried up after becoming isolated from the Atlantic Ocean. The evaporation of the Mediterranean led to the accumulation of enormous salt deposits on the seabed through a process known as the Messinian salinity crisis, which lasted for 700,000 years and ended with the abrupt re-flooding of the basin after the Strait of Gibraltar was finally breached.