That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

[Astronuc]

TL;DR Summary

Much of the Mediterranean Sea dried up at one time.

PBS Eons on KCTS

https://www.kcts9.org/show/eons/episode/that-time-the-mediterranean-sea-disappeared-esieyi

The Messinian salinity crisis (MSC), also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event, was a geological event during which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or nearly complete desiccation (drying-up) throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma (million years ago). It ended with the Zanclean flood, when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene

 

[BWV]

With the glacial dam bursts in lakes Bonneville & Missoula, clear evidence exists of a fast, catastrophic flood. With this and the later filling of the Black Sea, views differ on whether the filling occurred catastrophically fast or was a more gradual process - am guessing therefore that the type of geologic flood scarring you see in Idaho would be, what - buried under sediment, or eroded by water?

 

[Keith_McClary]

views differ

See the "To Flood or Not to Flood" section here.

 

[BillTre]

Seabed features have been used in support of a mega-flood scenario for the formation of the English Channel.
https://www.nature.com/articles/news070716-11

from: https://www.science.org/news/2017/0...mendous-ice-age-waterfalls-cut-britain-europe

 

[phyzguy]

Dry Falls in eastern Washington state in the US is an impressive reminder of the scale of these Ice Age floods. I would have loved to see the flood that re-filled the Mediterranean.

 

[anorlunda]

http://www.dukelabs.com/Publications/PubsPdf/CM2003_NarrowsFlood.pdf

Likewise for The Narrows under the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in New York City. The flood was
the draining of Glacial Lake Albany.