Zanclean flood (English, name)
expansion: Zanclean flood
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topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A theorised flood, 5.33 million years ago, of the Mediterranean basin, then dry due to the Messinian salinity crisis, triggered by its reconnection with the Atlantic Ocean, that marks the transition from the Miocene epoch (Messinian age) to the Pliocene epoch (Zanclean age).
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