The Mediterranean was filled with water in just two years

2010/01/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Geologia

5.6 million years ago, the Mediterranean was isolated from the oceans and dried almost completely by evaporation. Three thousand years later, however, the Atlantic found the flood track of the Mediterranean. It is a terrible flood, which has now proved much more terrible than expected, since in just two years the Mediterranean Sea returned to become.

So far scientists considered that the water had slowly entered the Strait of Gibraltar, but according to the model developed by the researchers of the CSIC, at some times the sea level in the Mediterranean had risen more than 10 meters a day. This model, based on seismic data and the geological structures existing in the Strait of Gibraltar, has been published in the journal Nature.