A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the ...

Imagine the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Then imagine the Atlantic refilling it in less than two years. That seems to be what happened 5 million years ago.

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

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 ...

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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 ...

The research focused on gypsum formations that developed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period when the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. "The Messinian Salinity ...

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