“Researchers believe this event, known as the Zanclean Megaflood, marked the conclusion of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. “
They state a timeline.
That was not the timeline for the mega flood.
Read it again.
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...