The culprit was not, of course, an eccentric German architect, but plate tectonics. The Mediterranean basin, trapped between two continents that today continue to move closer by up to two ...

The oldest known bit of oceanic crust, located in the Mediterranean, dates to just 340 million years ago, making it far too young to be useful for pinpointing when plate tectonics arose.

The sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea are home to over ... It was formed at the collision point of the African and European tectonic plates and has disappeared under water since ...