The making of the Med
![3 illustrations showing Africa pushing into Europe, a giant rushing of the Atlantic filling the basin of the Mediterranean, and the map of how the Mediterranean sea appears today](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/6e48eac2-cfe6-475c-9d66-a3e18d45bb40_64906658595.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
The Mediterranean sea was formed kind of how you think it might have happened from just looking at a world map — the mighty Atlantic ocean breaking free to fill up the giant basin from the African continent pushing into Europe.
Boy, this would have been spectacular.
I imagine it somewhat like the footage of when the sea reclaimed a tin mine in Malaysia in a few short minutes. Or when the waves finally overcame the walls of my sandcastle, just at a staggering scale.
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