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

This surge of water - the Zanclean Megaflood - is said to have ended a period during which the Mediterranean was a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted ...

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

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

The study suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal ...

Until, that is, this roughly 600,000-year-long period known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis suddenly came to an end. At first, scientists believed that the water’s return to the Mediterranean ...

The research suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. An international team of scientists, including the ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, not competitively — salinity. Since 1974, the seven Colorado River ...

The study suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. An international team of scientists, including the University of ...

Discoveries in Southeast Sicily reveal the massive scale of the Zanclean Megaflood, which refilled the Mediterranean Sea and ended the dry, salt flat-dominated landscape of the Messinian Salinity ...