Tag: Mediterranean
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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
The Conversation has an article about the mother of all floods… the flooding of the Mediterranean about 5 million years ago. The Atlantic Ocean seeped it’s way through Strait of Gibraltar, which was blocked by the movement of tectonic plates. This caused the Mediterranean Sea to dry up and led to the formation of large…
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PBS Eons: Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the "Messinian Salinity Crisis", which is the time when the Mediterranean Sea was separated from the Atlantic Ocean. In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced…
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Ancient Shipwreck Preserves a Deep Bronze Age Time Capsule
Jacob Sharvit, left, the director of maritime archaeology for the Israel Antiquities Authority, with two Bronze Age jugs moments after lifting them out of the Mediterranean Sea on the Energean Star on May 30. The New York Times has a story about a very old shipwreck discovered off the coast of northern Israel. The mile…
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PBS Eons: That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one combines paleontology and geology to discuss the history of the Mediterranean Sea. How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just…disappear? It would take decades and more than 1,000 research studies to even start to figure out the cause — or causes —…
