Zanclean Flood of the Mediterranean in Sicily - computer animation
Recreation of the evolution of the Messinian salinity crisis, between 6 and 5.3 milion years ago. Note that this is only one of the scenarios proposed by the scientific community studying this period. Time scale (million years per second) not to scale.
See also what happened before this, here: • Isolation and partial desiccation of ...
Video produced by the University of Malta under the supervision of:
Aaron Micallef, D. Garcia-Castellanos, and A. Camerlenghi.
Based on this original academic publication (open access):
Micallef, A., A. Camerlenghi, D. Garcia-Castellanos, Cunarro Otero, Gutscher, Barreca, Spatola, Facchin, Geletti, Krastel, Gross & Urlaub, 2018. Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Scientific Reports, 8:1078 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3. [open access]
Another open access scientific publication:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
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