A catastrophic flood revived the Mediterranean sea just before it died out desiccated

Earlier research had suggested that a major ice age had caused sea levels to drop, exposing a land bridge between Europe and Africa. Then, when the ice age ended, the sea rose again. With the increasing levels of water on the Atlantic Ocean, the clog at the Strait of Gibraltar began to erode. Initially, the flood began slowly, as the land bridge subsided a bit. Over the next several thousand years, the rapidly growing stream carved a notch deeper and deeper into the land, until the inflow of seawater became overwhelming — carrying possibly a thousand times more water than what the Amazon river carries today. Although the flood built up gradually, it eventually became gigantic. “Catastrophic” as the authors of the study state in the title of their paper. As much as 90% of the refill of the Mediterranean happened in a timescale of months to just 2 years. At the peak speed of… <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/a-catastrophic-flood-revived-the-mediterranean-sea-just-before-it-died-out-desiccated-89cf50b22070">Read More</a>