L'Atalante basin

L'Atalante basin
L'Atalante basin is located in Mediterranean
L'Atalante basin
L'Atalante basin
Coordinates35°11′N 21°25′E / 35.18°N 21.41°E / 35.18; 21.41

L'Atalante basin is a hypersaline brine lake at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea about 192 km (119 mi) west of the island of Crete.[1] It is named for the French L'Atalante,[2] one of the oceanographic research vessels involved in its discovery in 1993.[3] L'Atalante and its neighbors the Urania and Discovery deep hyper saline anoxic basins (DHABs) are at most 35,000 years old. They were formed by Messinian evaporite salt deposits dissolving out of the Mediterranean Ridge and collecting in abyssal depressions about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deep.[4] L'Atalante is the smallest of the three; its surface begins at about 3,500 m (11,500 ft) below sea level.[5]

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