Click on the map below or here to go to the page where you can see more. This is a nice resource if you are interested in the complex plate tectonics of the Mediterranean area. The map also ...

The saga of the continent’s demise is part of a new report that re-creates the last 240 million years of the Mediterranean’s tectonic history in unprecedented detail.

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, researchers created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

The Mediterranean Sea is a rather young body of water that formed around five and a half million years ago, as a result of the world’s biggest flood which ocean-ified a previously hot, dry desert.

Following the shifting of tectonic plates to understand Mediterranean biodiversity. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 01 / 120131121419.htm.

In the immediate aftermath, more than 80 aftershocks were recorded by EMSC, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. These spanned from the epicentre in Norcia, Umbria, a town 100 miles ...

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a very different place than it is today. Plate tectonics had closed the Strait of Gibraltar separating modern-day Spain and Morocco, leaving the ...