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摘要

Rarely do major geological events happen in a 'flash'. But the bulk of a huge flood that provided enough water to fill the Mediterranean Sea more than 5 million years ago may have occurred within less than two years. "That makes it an instantaneous event on geological timescales," says Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, a geophysicist at the Institute for Earth Science Jaume Almera in Barcelona, Spain.