The Zanclean megaflood was a cataclysmic event that rushed water from the Atlantic Ocean into the Strait of Gibraltar, ...

He said a megaflood is similar to the 1,000-year flash flood events seen this summer in the St. Louis area and Kentucky, but across a much wider area, such as the entire state of California.

The event is known as the Zanclean megaflood. The trouble is, most of the previous evidence came from salt deposits — some kilometers thick — on the Mediterranean seafloor — an indication of what ...

Seismic reflection data also show a huge W-shaped underwater channel running into the eastern basin that supports the theory of this megaflood. As a final step, the researchers created a computer ...

What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history The Mediterranean Sea, a largely dry and salty basin, was refilled in just a few years – or months ...

How scientists tracked down the megaflood Our finding is the latest twist in a story that began in the late 19th century. That’s when geologists studying salt-rich rock outcrops around the ...

A new study has provided compelling new evidence that a huge “megaflood” refilled the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million years ago. This surge of water - the Zanclean Megaflood - is said to ...

That likely means this flooding event—now known as the Zanclean megaflood—featured discharge rates of roughly 68 to 100 Sverdrups (one Sverdrup equals one million cubic meters per second).

Though the Zanclean megaflood remains just a theory, one thing is for sure—5.3 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea probably wasn’t the idyllic travel destination it is today.

According to GEO France, the Zanclean megaflood is estimated to have had a discharge of between 68 and 100 Sverdrups, with one Sverdrup equivalent to one million cubic meters per second, or ...

The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" some 5.33 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

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 ...