Researchers initially thought an enormous waterfall near Gibraltar refilled it over a period of tens of ... known as the Sicilian sill, into the eastern basin. Team member Giovanni Barreca at the ...

Artistic representation of the Gibraltar sill break at the end of the Messinian salinity crisis. At the end of this crisis, the level of the Mediterranean Sea was about one kilometer lower than that ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...