Scientists Uncover Evidence of a Colossal Megaflood That Refilled the Mediterranean Sea

Scitech Daily ^ | January 24, 2025 | University of Southampton

[Secret Agent Man]

Thanks, you completely missied the point.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

A pretty good fantasy series by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron - The Gandalara Cycle - is set in the dry bed of the Mediterranean. The last book of the series has the dam at Gibraltar beginning to give way as the inhabitants frantically climb the walls to higher ground. This is one of my periodic re-reads. They were supposedly written mostly by Heydron - Garrett’s wife - from an outline that he made.

[Paul R.]

The point is that the Grand Canyon could not be cut into ROCK in such a short period as the bozo theories posted on YT and elsewhere suggest, and the oft cited example of “Stop Canyon” at Mt. St. Helens is irrelevant and even silly.

[Racketeer]

I believe the land mass that gave way at Gibraltar caused a massive “vacuum” surge from the ocean floor as far west as the Caribbean sea.

Please do not get me started on the sediment found in the mountains of Peru that are only found elsewhere on the Pacific ocean floor.

[Elsie]

OK, I won’t.

[logi_cal869]

Well, now. Indeed, you are correct. I misread the badly worded passage, made clear when I read the source paper.

But the problem with the study - not least of which is the timeline - is that it’s nonsensical, basing its conclusions exclusively upon a study area which belies such water flow in their study area between Isla Palermo and the Sicilian coast based upon Mediterranean bathymetry.

Worse, from the paper itself:

“Validation of the Zanclean megaflood hypothesis requires directly characterising the evidence left by the passage of flooding waters in terms of geomorphology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy.”

Study area comprising a mere tens of square kilometers of shelf off Sicily, and

“...the megaflood hypothesis remains subject to debate25,26,27.”

Ironically, the ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ hypothesis has abundantly more evidence and remains firmly in the realm of tin-hat study. I wonder how much the authors were paid for their worthless observations...