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Mediterranean Sea Saved by Monumental Flood

18 minutes ago ago from webnhance.com

A cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea — which millions of years ago was a dry basin — like a bathtub in the space of less than two years. A new model suggests that at the flood’s peak water poured from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean basin at a rate one thousand times the flow of the Amazon River, according to calculations published in the Dec. 10 Nature. “In an instantaneous flash, the dry Mediterranean became a ...

Now that was a Flood

56 minutes ago ago from A Man With A Ph.D.

by Sister72 Ancient Med flood mystery solved : [Via BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition ] Research reveals details of a catastrophic flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago. [ More ] Rises of water by 10 meters a day. That would get someone's attention. Unfortunately, this happened 5 million years ago, before anything we would call human was on the scene. It would certainly make for ...

Ancient Mediterranean Flood Mystery Solved - Ocean Leadership

27 minutes ago ago from Consortium for Ocean Leadership

(Click to enlarge image) The team made a reconstruction of the Mediterranean during the . Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago. (From BBC News / by Victoria Gill) -- The flood occurred when Atlantic waters found their way into the cut-off and desiccated Mediterranean basin. The researchers say that a 200km channel across the ...

Ancient Med flood mystery solved

2 hours ago ago from tomfindlay

Research reveals details of a catastrophic flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago. http://bit.ly/5N4N9K

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