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Zanclean Flood
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The Zanclean megaflood hypothesis proposes catastrophic Atlantic refilling of the Mediterranean at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
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An influential model places rapid final refilling through Gibraltar near 5.33 Ma and estimates discharge far above that of modern rivers.
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García-Castellanos and colleagues proposed a runaway erosion–inflow feedback at the Strait of Gibraltar.
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The García-Castellanos model attributes rapid refilling to inflow eroding the Gibraltar gateway and thereby increasing discharge.
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Studies in the eastern Mediterranean and southeastern Sicily report candidate geological or modeled indicators consistent with megaflood passage.
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The crisis and major refilling are strongly supported, but the exact speed and sequence of final flooding are still debated.
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Messinian conditions included severe restriction and drawdown, but the catalog does not support a uniformly dry Mediterranean throughout the crisis.
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The García-Castellanos model estimates that most final water transfer occurred over months to roughly two years.
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Catastrophic final refilling is a serious model, but an episode lasting only months to about two years remains model-dependent.
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