Zanclean Flood of the Mediterranean in Sicily - computer animation

Recreation of the evolution of the Messinian salinity crisis, between 6 and 5.3 milion years ago. Note that this is only one of the scenarios proposed by the scientific community studying this period. Time scale (million years per second) not to scale.

Video produced by the University of Malta under the supervision of:
Aaron Micallef, D. Garcia-Castellanos, and A. Camerlenghi.

Based on this original academic publication (open access):
Micallef, A., A. Camerlenghi, D. Garcia-Castellanos, Cunarro Otero, Gutscher, Barreca, Spatola, Facchin, Geletti, Krastel, Gross & Urlaub, 2018. Evidence of the Zanclean megaflood in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Scientific Reports, 8:1078 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-19446-3. [open access]

Another open access scientific publication:

[stampator]

The few low-altitude bassins must have been so hot and salty they would made the dead sea look like a river

[dirtylemon]

A waterfall 1.5 km high. Let that sink in.

[Fritzadood]

The noto canyon must be a popular tourist destination for time travelers
Just think of how insane it would look to see a 1.5km tall 5km wide canyon in the middle of the most desolate place on the planet with that much water going through it

[Feasco]

Please give this event the respect it deserves by addressing it as the *ZANCLEAN MEGAFLOOD*

[daddyleon]

Two years…I have no clue at all whether to this this is amazingly quickly or staggeringly slow.

[amos]

Nice simulation of the Mediterranean, but the Black Sea is shown at its current size! It must have been much smaller too.

[FiveAcres]

Thank you. I am reading Thomas Halliday's Otherlands and wanted to see an animation of the megaflood. This is exactly what I wanted.

[mitchellglaser]

Ask your doctor if ZANCLEAN might be right for you!

[misterfulanito]

Damn, refilling a whole entire sea in less 2 years is a thing to consider from our Mother Earth

[imranazimviolinist]

Wow!! This video deserves 1.7M views!!

[FadedResolutions]

Man I wish I could walk that land-bridge connecting Africa to Italy.. or that mass of land inbetween Greece and Asia-Minor...Imagine being able to walk and dig down there for artifacts.. Just imagine what could be down there.

[thevoidlord]

Imagine you and your cavemen boys are hanging out on the beach, soaking up the rays, when suddenly a fucking torrent of water hits and singlehandedly reverses the desert that you and your ancestors have known about for as long as they can remember

[tookster]

I wonder if the weight of water movement caused planet wobbles, tilts etc?

[beathammer]

this event just made the top of my list of time travel destinations

[andreiarama]

How much did the oceans lowered their levels because of all that water that filled the Mediterranean sea? Was it noticeable?

[salam-peace]

There also was a similar event with the black sea filling up when the sea levels were rising at the end of the last ice age and the bosporus broke which acted like a dam, and a lot of what is now the black sea was dry land which got flooded rapidly. This is estimated to have happened only a few thousand years ago, and could be where the event of Noahs ark happened.
Another theory is that the impact event of the Burckle crater (an impact of a massive asteroid in the indian ocean which also only happened a few thousand years ago), which caused massive tsunamis as well as extreme rainstorms worldwide, is when Noahs ark story happened.
Maybe these events are even linked and the Burckle impact tsunamis caused the bosporus dam to break, this is also a possibility.

[stronzer]

a version of this to time scale would be amazing, like 1000's of years

[martinadams]

So that might explain Oda's idea of reverse mountain in One Piece manga/anime🤔🤯

[PMW]

That would have been impressive to see

[dbaker]

What about the Black Sea? Would it not have started to dry up also being connected to the Med?