So how did this salty basin become the Mediterranean Sea once again? Well the situation reversed in exactly the same way that it was caused. The African and Eurasian tectonic plates continued to move.
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Earth's largest flood refilled the Mediterranean Sea five million years agoBetween 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 ...
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