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 ...

Until recently, scientists believed that the dry period of the Messinian salinity crisis ended gradually over a period of 10,000 years. This idea was challenged by evidence of a single massive ...

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 ...

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 Mediterranean Sea was once a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted for hundreds of thousand years until a huge "megaflood" refilled it.

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment provides compelling evidence that the Zanclean megaflood refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending the Messinian salinity ...

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 ...

This was the Mediterranean’s state during what geologists call the Messinian Salinity Crisis, when the sea became cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and mostly evaporated under the hot sun. Model showing ...

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