Extended Data Table 2 Criteria used to create facies belts for reconstruction

From: Late Miocene Euphrates River drained into a partially desiccated eastern Mediterranean

  1. Facies belts were interpreted by linking fluvio-lacustrine depositional environments to the thickness of Messinian evaporites and associated accumulations (ref. 10), as well as the relative gradient of the modern bathymetry. Whereas the extent of onshore lakes was delineated from accumulations in ref. 13, the distribution of offshore lakes was defined primarily from Messinian thickness.
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