Nature Magazine News & Views article from 1999 (PDF format) ...
Krijgsman99news&views_MedSea.pdf

New insight into the Messinian salinity crisis ...
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~earles/messinian-crisis-apr03.htm

ODP leg 160, site 973 link ...
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/160_SR/160TOC.HTM#2

A few relevant papers in the lab (no links here but you can make copies of papers in folder in lab) ...

1. Hsu, K. J., W. B. F. Ryan, and M. B. Cita (1973). Late Miocene desiccation of the Mediterranean. Nature 242: 240-244.
2. Dietz, R.S. and Woodhouse, M (1988). Mediterranean Theory May Be All Wet. Geotimes 33, 4.
3. Zhang, J. and Scott, D.B. (1996). Messinian deep-water turbidites and glacioeustatic sea-level changes in the North Atlantic: linkage to the Mediterranean salinity crisis. Paleoceanography, 11(3): 277-297.