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" ... In the late Miocene, during the Messinian Stage (7.2-5.3 million years ago), tectonic forces, acting between the European and African plate, pushed up the Spanish Sierra Nevada and closed the strait of Gibraltar. As the influx by rivers into the Mediterranean Sea was not enough to compensate the evaporation in the hot greenhouse climate, the sea level in the closed basin started quickly to drop. As the remaining seawater became oversaturated, crystals of halite, anhydrite, gypsum, and clay were deposited in various basins. When the dam of Gibraltar broke, maybe after an earthquake, the Atlantic Ocean quickly refilled the Mediterranean Sea. A repeating series of sediments suggest that this happened not once, but various times, forming layers of clay and evaporitic minerals, capped by another succession of clays. ... "