Sounding the depths…

THE MEDITERRANEAN

3D bathymetry · EMODnet DTM 2024
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Max depth 5,267 m (Calypso Deep) · Gibraltar sill ~284 m
Dried out in the Messinian crisis, then refilled by the
Zanclean flood ~5.33 million years ago.
Depth (m)
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