T The flood, dubbed the Zanclean megaflood, is believed to have concluded the Messinian Salinity Crisis - an epoch when the Mediterranean was a sprawling desert of salt pans which persisted for ...

Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western Mediterranean basins were suddenly refilled during an event known as the Zanclean megaflood. Now, a new study finds evidence of this flood in ...

has identified a series of geological features around southeast Sicily that suggest a massive flood occurred across the region. “The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon ...