Models of the flood that refilled the Mediterranean put its peak flow through Gibraltar at roughly 100 million cubic metres a second — around 1,000 times the Amazon's average discharge — with erosion at the Camarinal Sill reaching roughly 0.4 metres a day

Models of the flood that refilled the Mediterranean put its peak flow through Gibraltar at roughly 100 million cubic metres a second — around 1,000 times the Amazon's average discharge — with erosion at the Camarinal Sill reaching roughly 0.4 metres a day

Roughly 100 million cubic metres of water per second, pouring from west to east through the Strait of Gibraltar. One team estimates that the flood thought to have refilled the Mediterranean carried, at its peak, about 1,000 times the water of the modern Amazon, the largest river on Earth. That’s not a bigger river. It’s a different kind of thing entirely. That figure comes from a single modelling study, and the useful way to hold it is to keep t…