Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin

Micallef, Aaron; Camerlenghi, Angelo; García‐Castellanos, Daniel; Cuñarro Otero, Daniel; Gutscher, Marc‐André; Barreca, Giovanni; Spatola, Daniele; Facchin, Lorenzo; Geletti, R.; Krastel, Sebastian; Groß, Felix; Urlaub, Morelia

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3

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Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin

Published in Scientific Reports • Jan 12, 2018

Authors:

Aaron Micallef

Angelo Camerlenghi

Daniel García‐Castellanos

Abstract

The Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) - the most abrupt, global-scale environmental change since the end of the Cretaceous - is widely associated with partial desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea. A major open question is the way normal marine conditions were abruptly restored at the end of the MSC. H...

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Mediterranean Basin

Mediterranean climate

Geography

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