The sunny Mediterranean Sea—today a very popular ... rapid flooding event refilled the sea: the Zanclean megaflood. In this new paper, the researchers describe how they have found further ...

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural ... During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporated, leading to vast salt ...

Imagine the entire Mediterranean Sea disappeared ... believe happened about five million years ago. Known as the Zanclean Megaflood, it was the most colossal flood in history.

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 ...

This occurred around 5.3 million years ago, when the Atlantic breached the Strait of Gibraltar once again, filling up the two basins to make what we know today as the Mediterranean Sea. The event is ...

If correct, (and some scientists do dispute the theory), the so-called Zanclean megaflood would be the ... This suggested that the Mediterranean Sea dropped to more than a kilometre below today ...

“The Zanclean Megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural ... Photo: Daniel Garcia Castellanos Around six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic.

"It opens the door to further research along the Mediterranean margins." More information: Aaron Micallef et al, Land-to-sea indicators of the Zanclean megaflood, Communications Earth ...

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural ... Spain to the Alboran Sea (the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea), indicating that a single, rapid flooding event refilled ...