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The restoration of the Atlantic/Mediterranean connection through the Gibraltar Strait took place at the end of Messinian Salinity Crisis and produced a huge flooding in a very short period of time, known as the Zanclean flooding. This catastrophic event produced significant erosion along the Alboran Basin that can be tracked eastward from the Gibraltar Strait till the transition to the Algero-Balear Basin. The interaction of the Atlantic water masses with the complex Messinian physiography sculpted an erosive corridor whose morphological characteristics vary along its pathway. At present-day, this erosive corridor locally appears strongly deformed by Plio-Pleistocene tectonics and mud diapirism.
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