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.

In fact, the Mediterranean Sea was, at one time, not even a sea at all. In fact, this now firmly aquatic areas once became a large, salty desert. This is all because of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

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.

Image of the tectonic plates making up the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic may start to close in around 20 million years. Elliot Lim, CIRES & NOAA/NCEI ...

Europe may be starting to dive under Africa, creating a new subduction zone and potentially increasing the earthquake risk in the western Mediterranean Sea, scientists report. Subduction zones ...

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 ...

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

New map of Earth’s tectonic plates ‘could help predict natural disasters’ In new research, scientists have redrawn the boundaries of our planet’s architecture, Andy Gregory reports ...

Granot and his team towed magnetic sensors to map 4,300 miles of the sea floor around the Herodotus and Levant Basins in the eastern Mediterranean basins between Turkey and Egypt.