Herman Sörgel, a German architect, formulated one of history's most ambitious plans: to drain the ocean. This project, known ...

The resulting flood, the Zanclean megaflood, was unimaginably powerful, causing the Atlantic waters to rush back into the basin where the Mediterranean Sea had once been.

During this ecological catastrophe, which occurred around 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago, a huge amount of the Mediterranean Sea was dramatically transformed into a vast, salty lake. The level of the ...

Figure 1: Map of Black Sea (BS) and Caspian Sea (CS) drainage basins (black lines). Overall, the Sofular record shows strong evidence for a highly dynamic hydrological history of the BS, with more ...

The serene turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea hide a sharp-tasting secret: a layer of salt up to two miles thick, lurking deep underneath the basin. The ghostly white minerals are one of ...

Ocean drainage basin map of Africa Robert Szucs / Grasshopper Geography From these maps, several hydrologic patterns stand out.

Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis -- a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago 2.

Elevated sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean are not just an isolated phenomenon - it is part of a larger global trend, with record warmth observed in most ocean basins over the past few ...

The Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic Ocean waters breached the strait of Gibraltar, sending a massive flood into the basin.

Temperatures in the Mediterranean basin are increasing much faster than the global average, threatening food and water supplies, scientists warned Thursday in a new study.

Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago. The flood occurred when Atlantic waters found their way into the ...