Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

LARAMIE -- The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) recently published updated geological maps of the Rawlins and Red Desert Basin quadrangles, providing critical new insights into the geology ...

LARAMIE — The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) recently published updated geological maps of the Rawlins and Red Desert Basin quadrangles, providing critical new insights into the geology ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

ANDRÉ FREIWALD, LYDIA BEUCK, ANDRES RÜGGEBERG, MARCO TAVIANI, DIERK HEBBELN, R/V METEOR CRUISE M70 - 1 PARTICIPANTS, The WHITE CORAL COMMUNITY in the Central Mediterranean Sea Revealed by ROV Surveys, ...

1998 Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Maps showing the components located in Valencia 1998 Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. Maps showing the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was ...

Researchers identified geological features that point to a single massive flooding event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago ...

In a nutshell Scientists have found definitive evidence of Earth’s largest known flood, which occurred 5 million years ago when Atlantic waters burst through Gibraltar and rapidly refilled the ...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis—which ran between 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago—occurred when the sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, leading to the near-complete evaporation of the ...

This transformative flood, occurring between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, refilled the basin in a dramatic and rapid event, challenging long-held scientific theories. An international team of ...