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The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so huge and fast that it shaped the landscape of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Mediterranean countries are some of the most-visited in the world. However, millions of years ago, the Mediterranean's ...

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 ...

Now, a new study finds evidence of this flood in ridges along the Sicily Sill and in channels that likely formed from this sudden and powerful deluge. Ages, epochs, periods, and even eras are often ...

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An international research team led by a Maltese marine geologist has uncovered evidence that the largest flooding event in known history happened in the Mediterranean more than five million years ago.