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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which occurred between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. This isolation caused the near-total evaporation of ...

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 ...