Template:Did you know nominations/Zanclean flood
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:33, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
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Zanclean flood
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Illustration of the flood in a reconstructed landscape of the Western Mediterranean.
- ... that the Mediterranean Sea may have been filled by a giant flood (pictured) about 1,000 larger than the discharge of the Amazon River? The Atlantic waters found a way through the present Gibraltar Strait and rapidly refilled the Mediterranean 5.33 million years ago in an event known as the Zanclean flood...three orders of magnitude larger than the present Amazon River
- Reviewed: Shanique Speight
5x expanded by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 11:49, 19 January 2018 (UTC).
Genuinely interesting hook with a reliable source. The article was expanded five-fold within seven days, doesn't have any copyright or OR concerns, and the QPQ was completed beforehand.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
