Not all canyons are created equal. Steep canyons with amphitheatre-shaped heads are thought to result from the activity of groundwater, on the basis of studies of such features that developed in ...
An international research team led by a Maltese marine geologist has uncovered evidence that the largest flooding event in known history happened in the Mediterranean more than five million years ago.
The layer developed on the top of a bouldery gravel. This gravel is overlain by loess, which is capped by a megaflood diamict deposited during the last glaciation around 18,000 years ago. The ...
Carling, Juergen Herget, J. K. Lanz, K. Richardson and Andrea Pacifici 3. A review of open-channel megaflood depositional landforms on Earth and Mars Paul A. Carling, Timothy Johnsen and Tracy A.
A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast expanse of salt flats. The study suggests the ...