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

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 ...

ANDRÉ FREIWALD, LYDIA BEUCK, ANDRES RÜGGEBERG, MARCO TAVIANI, DIERK HEBBELN, R/V METEOR CRUISE M70 - 1 PARTICIPANTS, The WHITE CORAL COMMUNITY in the Central Mediterranean Sea Revealed by ROV Surveys, ...

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 ...

"The Messinian Salinity Crisis occurred when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean," said Sellam.

Is it possible for you to survive in the Late Miocene Epoch? In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A ...

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 ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Messinian Salinity Crisis caused the Mediterranean Sea to be cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporate into an expanse of salt deposits.