Around 30 millions years ago, the Western Mediterranean basin opened as a result of the tectonic collision of the African and Eurasian plates. This geologic event was the starting point for the ...

Forget Atlantis. Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria,” declared Douwe van Hinsbergen, professor of global tectonics and ...

The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most seismically active areas on Earth. That's especially true of the Ionian Sea, which is 13,000 feet deep and lies between Italy and Greece. One effect of ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea called the ...

Floods Geology Mediterranean. Daily Newsletter. ... Researchers identified geological features that point to a single massive flooding event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago.

Extensive introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards. Nature Communications , 2021; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22949-9 Cite This Page : ...

For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western ...

The evidence shows that 60 to 80,000 years ago the Mediterranean was shallower than it is today. Importance: These caves contain evidence of how Mediterranean Sea levels have changed over time.

The findings were published in the journal Geology. As a result of global warming, more extremely salty water masses from the Mediterranean will be flowing into the North Atlantic through the ...