The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years.
A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.
According to this theory, ocean water rushed fast down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean basin, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its way.
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