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How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean
Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...
The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.
What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...
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The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean
They named that age "Messinian" and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis. In the 1970s, scientists for the first time drilled deep below the Mediterranean into ...
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What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car ...