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The Zanclean Megaflood Was One of Earth’s Most Dramatic Events 5.3 Million Years Ago
The flood that filled the Mediterranean sea caused destruction for all creatures in its path, but created the body of water ...
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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
that’s the thesis one of us put forward in a 2009 study of an underwater canyon excavated along the Strait of Gibraltar, which he presumed to have been carved out by this massive flood.
How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean
Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...
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The Floods This Time: In the Mediterranean, Climate Change Is Already Here
In the autumn, deadly floods wreaked havoc along an arc from Spain to the Balkans, and from Morocco to Libya. More than 200 people were killed in Valencia in October, not long after a deluge ...
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At least 155 people were killed in devastating flash floods in Spain
D evastating floods have killed at least 155 people in ... Knee-deep floodwaters hit the city of Cádiz, which lies close to Gibraltar in southwestern Spain. And a torrent of water could be ...
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The largest flood in Earth's history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean
At least, that's the thesis one of us put forward in a 2009 study of an underwater canyon excavated along the Strait of Gibraltar, which he presumed to have been carved out by this massive flood.