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Millions of years ago, the Mediterranean evaporates. It may then be re -filled by the largest flood on earth.
An international team of researchers has unveiled new evidence by supporting Jancalian Meghaflad, a theoretical event in which the Mesinian salinity refines the Mediterranean after converting it into a dry, salty landscape. As in detail on a 28 December Study Journal Communication is the Earth and the environmentResearchers have combined the newly identified geological features in Sicily with geological data and computer models so that today, the ancient megaphlad, known as the most widely, is possible.
Aaron Mikallef, who led the research at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, said, “Ganclin megafflad was an amazing natural phenomenon, where the velocity of the discharge and the velocity of flowing any other familiar floods in the history of the world.” Southampton Statement. “Our research provides the most vigorous evidence of this extraordinary event.”
5.97 to 5.33 million years ago, due to the mesinian salinity crisis, the Mediterranean was separated from the Atlantic Ocean and the salt deposits expanded. Scientists had previously given theory that during the 10,000 years, the Mediterranean basin gradually was filled with water. However, 2009 Discover an erasure channel It challenged this theory extending from the Cadiz Gulf to the Atlantic coast of Spain to the Alboraan Sea, and instead managed to propose a single flood of scientists.
Researchers wrote, “The supernatural water is believed to have passed through the Atlantic Water through a late Mesinian Ishthma, which was initially filled with the Western Mediterranean, and subsequently filled the Eastern Mediterranean, and spread over the inter -residential Sisil.” New research. Scientists assume that the megaphlad lasted between two and 16 years and was emitted between 2.4 to 3.5 billion cubic feet (68 and 100 million cubic meters per second, according to research.
The team has identified more than 300 unstable, uninterrupted rocky, a now-water ground bridge near Sicily Sail, which once divided the Western Mediterranean from the eastern Mediterranean. The rockyras were laminated in the ruins of the ridge flank and surrounding areas, which indicate a quick and intense accumulation process. The layers are perfectly aligned with the proposed period of the Mesinian (7.2 million to 5.3 million years ago) and Jancalian (5.3 to 3.60 million years ago), about 5.3 million years ago.
“The size of these rocks is mainly compatible with the northeast, the size of these rocks,” said Paul Carling, the University of Southampton, who participated in the study. “They express the immense power of Zanclean Megaflood and how it has given the landscape a new shape with a permanent impression on the geological record.”
Carling and his colleagues invented a “W-shaped channel” on the seashore before the Sicily Selle, known as the Note Canyon with a sub-valley in the eastern Mediterranean. Researchers suggest that when the Jancalian Megaphalad completed the Western Mediterranean and eventually splashed over the Sicily Selle, the channel flowed to the eastern part of the sea.
The team has also created a computer model for this dynamic restructuring. Simulations suggest that the water direction has changed and has become more intense over time, with the discharge of up to 72 miles per hour (116 km per hour).
“These searches not only sheds on an important moment in the geological history of the earth but also showing the groundwater for more than five million years,” added Mikallef. “It opens the door to further research along the Mediterranean edge.”
Although Jancalian Megafflad remains only as a theory, a thing is sure – 5.3 million years ago, the Mediterranean was probably not the destination of today’s travel.
