199), in asking why it is that the water ... from evaporated seas or lake basins, and have thus been withheld or abstracted from the ocean's waters. In the latter case they are fossil sea-waters ...

that restriction sped up the deposit of salts and water evaporation in the Mediterranean. In the second phase, across the next 10,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea was completely isolated ...

This causes its water to be more salty ... re-created the Mediterranean Sea that we all know and love. Still extremely salty, thanks to the high levels of evaporation, human settlers made the ...