This is the first major discovery [of a paleoriver] in decades. They determined that the river flowed out of what are today Turkey and Syria, draining into a lake in the dry Mediterranean basin.
Sedimentary deposits in the seismic imagery indicated that the deposits had been left along riverbanks instead of undersea. Today, no major river system feeds into the eastern Mediterranean. But back in the Miocene and possibly before, the prevailing tectonics in the area dictated that water flowed into the Mediterranean. Climate during the MSC likely also contributed to the formation of the river by causing increased rainfall over Turkey and Syria.
Her findings indicate that a reduced Mediterranean would have induced atmospheric circulation changes that could have brought increased precipitation to higher-elevation regions in southern Europe, including Turkey, and an entirely evaporated Mediterranean may have led to a drought from southern Europe to northern Africa. The results of such simulations are dependent on just how much the sea dried up, however, she says. These remains can be any objects that people created, modified, or used.
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