Messinian Salinity Crisis (late Miocene)

Target entity: Messinian Salinity Crisis (late Miocene)
Context triple: [Neogene, hasMajorEvent, Messinian Salinity Crisis (late Miocene)]

• A. Marinoan glaciation
  The Marinoan glaciation was a major Neoproterozoic ice age, likely a global or near-global “Snowball Earth” event that occurred around 650–635 million years ago.
• B. Younger Dryas cold event
  The Younger Dryas cold event was a brief, abrupt return to near-glacial conditions about 12,900–11,700 years ago that interrupted the general warming trend at the end of the last Ice Age.
• C. Huronian glaciation
  The Huronian glaciation was one of Earth's earliest and longest ice ages, occurring over 2.4 billion years ago and likely linked to the Great Oxidation Event and major climatic shifts.
• D. Sturtian glaciation
  The Sturtian glaciation was a major global ice age during the Neoproterozoic, when extensive ice sheets may have covered much of Earth’s surface in one of the most severe glacial events in the planet’s history.
• E. Last Glacial Maximum
  The Last Glacial Maximum was the most recent period in Earth’s history when ice sheets reached their greatest extent, dramatically lowering sea levels and reshaping global climates and ecosystems.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Messinian Salinity Crisis (late Miocene)
Target entity description: The Messinian Salinity Crisis (late Miocene) was a geological event during which the Mediterranean Sea nearly dried up after becoming isolated from the Atlantic, leading to massive salt deposition and dramatic environmental changes.

• A. Marinoan glaciation
  The Marinoan glaciation was a major Neoproterozoic ice age, likely a global or near-global “Snowball Earth” event that occurred around 650–635 million years ago.
• B. Younger Dryas cold event
  The Younger Dryas cold event was a brief, abrupt return to near-glacial conditions about 12,900–11,700 years ago that interrupted the general warming trend at the end of the last Ice Age.
• C. Huronian glaciation
  The Huronian glaciation was one of Earth's earliest and longest ice ages, occurring over 2.4 billion years ago and likely linked to the Great Oxidation Event and major climatic shifts.
• D. Sturtian glaciation
  The Sturtian glaciation was a major global ice age during the Neoproterozoic, when extensive ice sheets may have covered much of Earth’s surface in one of the most severe glacial events in the planet’s history.
• E. Last Glacial Maximum
  The Last Glacial Maximum was the most recent period in Earth’s history when ice sheets reached their greatest extent, dramatically lowering sea levels and reshaping global climates and ecosystems.
• F. None of above. chosen