The Mediterranean Returns

AI scientific visualisation based on evidence. Around 5.33 million years ago, Atlantic water may have refilled the Mediterranean in a catastrophic flood. This scene imagines water advancing through a lowered basin during the proposed Zanclean megaflood. The precise landscape, flow and timing remain uncertain; these ten seconds represent one moment, not the entire refilling.
Duration: 10.0 seconds
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Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis

a map of the area of the megaflatable deposit

The Mediterranean Returns

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