| 单词 | salinity crisis |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalinity crisis salinity crisis n. Geology and Geography 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > other ages or periods terrace-epoch1863 youth1896 secule1903 pluvial1929 interpluvial1931 intrapluvial1939 salinity crisis1967 1967 C. 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). 1977 A. 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. < as lemmas |
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