Researchers uncover 340 million year-old oceanic crust in the Mediterranean Sea

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Mediterranean Sea. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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Scientists have identified that the eastern Mediterranean Sea contains the world’s oldest oceanic crust still in place and could be almost 340 million years-old…

The crust might be a remnant of the ancient Tethys Ocean, which existed long before the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. If correct, this implies the ocean formed much earlier than previously thought…

Read Full Article, PhysOrg (08-15-2016)

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