New research has shown that the Euphrates River, one of the most historically significant river systems in Western Asia, originated as two distinct river systems that drained into the Mediterranean approximately 5.5 million years ago...
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In a new paper published today in Nature Geosciences, an international team of researchers, including Claudia Bertoni and Richard Walker, investigated the role these waterways had in delivering freshwater to the Mediterranean during the “Messinian Salinity Crisis”, and how tectonic activity redirected their course towards the Persian Gulf.
