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The Zanclean megaflood was a cataclysmic event that rushed water from the Atlantic Ocean into the Strait of Gibraltar, ...

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This video animates the evolution, and end, of the Messinian salinity crisis. University of Malta/Aaron Micallef, D. Garcia-Castellanos, and A. Camerlenghi.

The event is known as the Zanclean megaflood. The trouble is, most of the previous evidence came from salt deposits — some kilometers thick — on the Mediterranean seafloor — an indication of what ...

With no incoming water and a hot, dry climate, the sea transformed over time into parched salt flats. This so-called Messinian Salinity Crisis lasted for 600,000 years.

They named that age “Messinian” and the drying up eventually became known as the Messinian salinity crisis.

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 ...

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 ...

They chose the Mediterranean's famous gypsum formations, which formed 6 million years ago during a sharp increase in salinity dubbed the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Gypsum deposits form quickly ...

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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 ...