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salinity|səˈlɪnɪtɪ|
[f. saline + -ity. Cf. F. salinité.]
1. The quality of being saline; saltness.
1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1694) 181 The Salinity of the Ocean. 1869Sci. Opinion 14 Apr. 445/2 We want information..as to the degree of salinity..of the water at different levels. 1883Chamb. Jrnl. 332 Deeper down [in the Dead Sea] the salinity amounts to saturation.
2. Special Comb.: salinity crisis Geol. and Geogr., a period of increased evaporation and salinity in the Mediterranean at the end of the Miocene epoch which resulted in the local disappearance of marine life.
1967C. Ruggieri in Adams & Ager Aspects Tethyan Biogeogr. 286 The Gibraltar straits (probably the true asylum for the Indo-Pacific relicts during the salinity crisis of the Upper Miocene). 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 231/1 This evaporative phase..is known as the ‘salinity crisis’ because of the extreme effect which it had upon the marine fauna and flora present in the late Miocene Mediterranean. |