File:Messinian Mediterranean and Gibraltar - reconstructed landscape.jpg

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Camera location36° 00′ 00″ N, 5° 30′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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English: Illustration of the presumed flood of the Mediterranean after its desiccation during the Messinian salinity crisis. If confirmed, this would be the largest documented flood in the geological record. The view in this image is from the southwest, with the future British Isles in the upper left-hand corner.
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Source This was uncopyrighted material since its creation, it was commanded specifically to be distributed freely in Dec. 2009, and distributed to the press at that time. It was first published in http://retosterricolas.blogspot.com/2009/12/inundacion-catastrofica-de-un.html
Author Roger Pibernat under supervision of Daniel Garcia-Castellanos

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