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The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.
The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.
The Independent6d
The latest twist in the story of the megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean
At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river ... a gap between modern-day Sicily and mainland Africa to refill the eastern half of the Mediterranean.
Yahoo5d
What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history
Sicily (the large island next to the ‘toe’ of Italy) still forms part of a divide between the ... basin of the Mediterranean should have run into a ridge of higher land connecting modern ...
The Independent5d
What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history
At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river ... a gap between modern-day Sicily and mainland Africa to refill the eastern half of the Mediterranean.
FDD's Long War Journal6d
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Greek Reporter1d
The Unsung City-States That Shaped the Ancient Greek World
While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...
RealClearScience4d
The Largest Flood in Earth's History
At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river. At least ... the water surged through a gap between modern-day Sicily and mainland Africa to refill the ...