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New evidence suggests megaflood refilled the Mediterranean Sea five million years ago (www.southampton.ac.uk)

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The study suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"discovery of an erosion channel stretching from the Gulf of Cadiz to the Alboran Sea in 2009."

Weird they don't just say "Strait of Gibraltar". Must have been something to see when that dam burst.

I'm also fascinated by the theory that the flood of Noah and Gilgamesh may have been a similar event from the Mediterranean into the Black Sea, which apparently been fresh water at one point before becoming inundated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago

That erosion evidence would go through the Strait, but the point is that they found it from well into the Atlantic and on into the Mediterranean. Erosion in the Strait alone wouldn't be enough to suggest massive water movement.