During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporated, leading to vast salt deposits which reshaped the region's landscape. For years ...

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporated, leading to vast salt deposits which reshaped the region's landscape. For years ...

A new study has provided compelling new evidence that a huge "megaflood" refilled the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence supporting the Zanclean megaflood, a theorized event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea after the Messinian Salinity Crisis had ...

A new study has provided compelling new evidence that a huge “megaflood” refilled the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million ... known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted for hundreds ...

Stock image of a map of the Mediterranean ... the Mediterranean. The Messinian Salinity Crisis—which ran between 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago—occurred when the sea became isolated from ...

The Mediterranean Sea was once a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted for ...

The authors also found evidence of w-shaped flood channels using seismic data and developed computer models to simulate how ...

A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal ‘megaflood’ refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast expanse of salt flats. The study suggests the ...

Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or more specifically, the Messinian and Zanclean ages—the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and formed a ...