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...s not a simple passive continental margin; it results from [[Oligocene]]-[[Miocene]] anti-clockwise rotation of the [[Corsican-Sardinian Block]] against the E

...n and Eurasian plates, and the [[Messinian Salinity Crisis]] in the late [[Miocene]] when the Mediterranean dried up.

...[[Africa]]n landmass. Most of this occurred during the [[Oligocene]] and [[Miocene]] epochs. The pressure formed great recumbent folds, or ''nappes'', that ro