6-mln-year-old submarine canyon found in E. Mediterranean


JERUSALEM, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Israeli geologists have discovered a massive submarine canyon, formed about 6 million years ago, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) said in a statement on Sunday.

The canyon was found in the deep reaches of the Levant Basin near the Eratosthenes Seamount, about 120 km south of Cyprus and 250 km northwest of Israel's western seashore.

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