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 ...

Once thought to be from an underwater lost city, formations found near Greek island are revealed to be a naturally occurring geological formation.

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, however, known for its richness of fossil white coral communities exposed in land outcrops, harbors very few extant coral communities. The HERMES project extended its study ...

The evolution of wall lizards offers clues on how major events in the Mediterranean climate and geology millions of years ago affected how species formed or became extinct, and also paved the way ...

Millions of years ago, the Mediterranean Sea evaporated. It may have then been refilled by the largest flooding event ever experienced on Earth. An international team of researchers has uncovered ...

Scientists Found Evidence of a Megaflood that Shaped Earth’s Geologic History The flood may have refilled the entire Mediterranean Basin in just two years.

About 150,000 years ago, an anomalous ice age was triggered by an increasingly salty Mediterranean Sea, a development that's occurring today and may start new ice sheet growth in the next few ...

Barely a nautical mile separates L’Estartit from one of the Mediterranean's best-kept secrets: the Medes Islands. This small Catalan archipelago, protected for over 40 years, attracts divers 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 ...

The model reproduces the propagation of a subduction zone from a closing ocean – in this case, the Mediterranean – through a narrow oceanic corridor into a new opening ocean, the Atlantic.

As a result of global warming, more extremely salty water masses from the Mediterranean will be flowing into the North Atlantic through the Straits of Gibraltar. This was the conclusion of ...