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Red Sea - crustal architecture• Evaporite deposition occurred in the Miocene (20 Ma to 5 Ma) as the oceanconnection (mostly with the Mediterranean at this time) was intermittentlyopened and closed.• These salt deposits are 4 km thick in placesOpen University, 1989 70

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