Sentences with phrase «km deep basin»
The event, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), saw the Mediterranean become a 1.5 km deep basin for around 270,000 years.
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The Rheasilvia impact obliterated half of an older 400 - kilometer - wide and 12 - km - deep impact basin, named Veneneia (one of the first Vestal Virgins.
The BBC reports that scientists from the Marche Polytechnic University in Italy found the creature in the Mediterranean Sea's L'Atalante basin — which is «about 3.5 km (2.2 m) deep and is almost entirely depleted of oxygen, or anoxic.»