Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?

In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced by an endless salty, desolate landscape. Is it possible for you to survive here?
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[@eons]

We’re publishing the Eons podcast right here on KZbin during our off weeks! As usual, we’ll be back with another regular Eons episode next week. A quick correction at around 31:56: Kallie misspeaks when she says the Gerbil Event is the best known faunal exchange of all time. She meant to say of /this/ time - the MSC. We are certain you all can name another, more famous faunal exchange and we encourage you to do so in reply to this comment!

[@buckysrevenge]

Could you please tag it as a podcast so it shows up in KZbin music, too? Thanks!

[@skylarclayton6427]

Been so exciting to see the stuff you're working on on patreon!!!!! Cannot wait, love this channel 💕💕💕💕

[@nathanielperez1150]

I love you guys

[@rapturesrevenge]

The Great American Interchange!

[@Bad_Rice]

Any chance you could hire me to animate any of this in Unreal Engine/Blender or even put a small png of the animals scaled next to humans? I seriously believe the visuals would help as opposed to pausing and image searching each animal for a reference.

[@AshArAis]

These have been my favourite podcasts lately. So much more context for each era and getting a feel for what the progression was at each point

[@SerDerpish]

Kallie’s immersive narration makes me think she would make an amazing dungeon master 📖🧙‍♀️🐉

[@DragoniteSpam]

I vote for Eons D&D being the next series they do after this one

[@D3v1an7_Sh4d0w]

She and Blake are the only presenters whose voices I can stand.

[@arkurianstormblade4109]

I love how it went from "we're going to dry up like sponges in this desert!" to "lets try to infiltrate the monkes"

[@arirenzi-surprenant]

I’m going to say no

[@GatoTaos]

Don’t know about you but I’m built different.

[@nebulan]

Same cuz I don't know if the late miocene has any pharmacies

[@NeilEvans-xq8ik]

I'd run around screaming for a while and then give up that ghost 👻

[@Tim3.14]

My answer to all of these😅

[@jaysonparkhurst7422]

Weak

[@BrotherSkodidi]

Ok, you can't just drop cold-blooded goats and not delve into this! I demand an episode on them and the other descendent animals on the Balearic and other Mediterranean islands.

[@Yosskovya]

and the derpy north pacific hippos

[@believer773]

Anyone else think it would be amazing to watch the Gibraltar dam break and marvel at an ocean being filled? Just me?

[@bonham1981]

Would be quite a sight. Like watching a giant pool fill with water... over a period of a couple of years I reckon. 🤣

[@LimeyLassen]

Same with the draining of Lake Bonneville.

[@elizabethopoulos4894]

So long as I'm not in the basin...

[@glittery_fairy]

I think it would just look like a river or something at first

[@theghostnextdoor4948]

100% if there was one event i could go back in time to witness, it would be that

[@lukasbohnenkamper4954]

At this point maybe you should check the settings of your time machine. It almost always drops you off at the worst possible moments. 😄

[@natmorse-noland9133]

Star Wars, LOTR, and The Witcher references all rolled into one, nicely done.

[@nebulan]

Also D&D. Gabriel is my kind of nerd.

[@dorongrossman-naples9207]

Where was the Witcher reference? I missed it.

[@rumpleforeskin1812]

I literally love this channel so freaking much it’s insane

[@SourSweetTart]

I love how this series helps conceptualize what the past was like. It is one thing to know the facts but it is another to “experience” how it actually would affect the life.

[@DeadMarine1980]

Here's a bright idea.....how about walk North and GET OUT OF THE SALT DEATH TRAP?!

[@freshoutofcrabs]

For sure! Or hike to one of the mountains that'll one day be an island. Clearly that's where the animals went.

[@ImperfectVoid8479]

Then the episode wouldn't be about surviving the MSC. That would be the obvious best survival strategy if you actually went there, but it doesn't work on a hypothetical scenario if your objective is to talk about the environment in the dried up mediterranean.

[@DeadMarine1980]

@@ImperfectVoid8479 no. It would still work as an episode. "Wow, we're in a salt death trap! Let's talk about how we walked north to get out of this hell on Earth!"

[@ImperfectVoid8479]

​@@DeadMarine1980 I didn't say it wouldn't work as an episode, I said that episode wouldn't be about surviving the MSC. If they didn't focus on the dried mediterranean, that would just be an episode on the late miocene, and at that point why did we even start during the MSC or anywhere near it geographically? I would still watch that episode, it would just be weird to specifically land in the dried mediterranean and then get out of it and spend the rest of the episode talking about surviving in an environment that you could still find a few hundred thousand years before or after. In other words, if the writers wanted a regular late miocene episode, they wouldn't have chosen the period or geographical area of the MSC to focus on.

[@deheavon6670]

Watch out for the katabatic winds swooping down the now-exposed continental slopes. Finding the inland delta of some river would probably be the best bet to survive here.

[@ninjacoughdrop]

The dust storms would have been craaazy

[@howdidiget]

This might be cheating, but does turning around count as a survival method? Can we live in the hills and go down in the evening to check out fish bones and say hi to the monkeys? Weave baskets and a stylish hat out of grass and harvest salt and sea shells to make tools out of? My Polynesian and West African ancestors are saying we can make it work.

[@auroraourania7161]

Yeah that was definitely my thought when they described themselves starting at Gibraltar. No way I could survive in a salty desert basin, but there's definitely a chance I could survive in semi-arid hills of what is now Spain or Portugal. Although given my medical history, I doubt that's happening either

[@howdidiget]

@@auroraourania7161 Oh yeah, I'm assuming I can somehow get meds delivered through space time. On the other hand, I've kind of always wanted to live in a cliff dwelling

[@SwordAndWaistcoat]

Unless you start really close to the coast getting to somewhere that makes it easier to survive would take a while on foot.

[@Gnome_with_no_name]

Maybe walk around the rim of the basin? I mean, you could still see the basin, it’s right there to your side and down a bit. Or just stay in Gibraltar. No one says you have to walk into the Great Instant Mummification Basin.

[@SwordAndWaistcoat]

@@Gnome_with_no_name Yeah, if you're already at Gibraltar you'd be better off staying near the coast.

[@m.w.5972]

I can barely survive in comfort of a warm home with supportive people around me my guy

[@norarivkis2513]

Modern macaques actually DO befriend other types of primates sometimes!! I've seen wild macaques making friends with orangutans in videos about the orangs. They didn't even sound as if it was uncommon. Be nice to the macaques. Share your gerbil jerky. They can totally help you.

[@sarahchristine2345]

A new ‘Surviving Deep Time’ episode?? Oh hell yeah!!! 👍

[@andrewmcneil]

Fun fact Herman Sörgel proposed the idea of building a dam between the Straits of Gibraltar back in the 1920s. Have to wonder what ecological damage it would have caused if it went ahead.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

Indeed. I'm surprised that such an evil project didn't get off the ground back then. The gangster capitalists must have been so disappointed.

[@andrewmcneil]

@@patrickfitzgerald2861 💯👍

[@davidcraft4636]

@@andrewmcneil Communist 3 Gorges Dam anyone?

[@marc-antoinecusson3119]

But, imagine the ruins we could find. Not worth the écologique catastrophe butttt

[@paulmryglod4802]

Im sure the Moores were foaming at the mouth to get back to Europe lol

[@Sabatuar]

Can't I just head north to Spain instead of going down to the salty hellscape? Certainly seems the wiser course of action.

[@saraa3418]

I think that before you go explore the salt flats, you should spend some time preparing in the grasslands along the Atlantic coast. Make hats and baskets out of the grass catch some fish, hunt some ungulates. You can make smoked/dried fish and jerky or pemmican out of your deer or goat to bring with you in the baskets. More important to your survival would be saving the hides, bladders, and stomachs to tan. Bladders and stomachs were used historically to make canteens around the world since they are light weight and impermeable to water. The hides would be useful to sleep on or under for insulation. Deserts get really cold at night and keeping a fire going all night isn't very possible/probable given the kind of fuels available so you would need to huddle together for warmth. You'll want separation from the ground, so a woven mat (or two) followed by a skin (or two) would make for a warm and somewhat comfortable bed. Eventually, you could have enough hides to sleep in the middle of some or make a tent.

[@northernway4769]

The heat would be the killer. In the atmosphere temperature increases about 7 degrees each thousand meters you descend. So at the bottom of this salt desert it would be more than 30 C hotter than the current Mediterranean. Probably one of the hottest areas ever on Earth. Then the bright salt will reflect almost all solar radiation. So that’s like being hit by two suns. One from above and one reflected from below. A real nightmare.

[@joluoto]

Well at least the have the Gerbil Event.

[@deheavon6670]

It would be hotter but not to the extent if you just extrapolate from adiabatic heating - much like the Tibetan plateau is much warmer than the air elsewhere at 5000 meters up.

[@scottallberry]

The period of time when the bearing straight closed and the Mediterranean dried up fascinates me. I rarely see it covered in documentaries and am excited for this surviving episodes.

[@nikon3822]

I think you mean the straight of Gibraltar. Don't mind the nerd, I'm gonna leave now 😅 And to include something more relevant. It's absolutely crazy to think that a geological landmark, that we know today has been established by a few events in a few months is absolutely astonishing. We normally think of millions or maybe thousands of years for a change that big, but it happened on an instant in geological terms.

[@DrachenGothik666]

First off, it's spelled "Bering Strait". Second, the Bering Strait is between Alaska & Russia. It's the Strait of Gibraltar that was closed off in the Mediterranean.

[@nebulan]

Can the "gerbil event" film regular gerbils knocking over tiny model buildings? Cuz that would be adorable

[@henryplantagenet219]

The two of you together going on these raids is soo hilarious - fantastic fun and still scientifically interesting. Keep it up. Please!!

[@alanvoore]

"Religion is where you follow everything. Science is where you challenge everything." ~A.S Rana

[@flufffycow]

It's a miracle I made it through it

[@pipe2devnull]

Using it.😊

[@KentoLeoDragon]

Science is when you are wrong about everything. Just a matter of time.

[@NoCareBearsGiven]

@@KentoLeoDragonstop using your phone, electricity, medical care, car, etc. theyre all products of scientific innovation, not religion.

[@KentoLeoDragon]

@ What on Earth are you on about? Pretty much everything in science we've learned over the last few thousand years was eventually proved wrong. That's how science works. Such arrogance, thinking we're somehow at the pinnacle of science and know everything. What a dangerous belief. Religious in its own zealotry, in fact.

[@spencermarkowitz1749]

OMG. Y'all are dead. When you took that first step down into the .Mediterranean Valley, I was yelling at the screen: "Don't do it!"

[@reginat5749]

Yeah, at this point I'm wondering if the writers have it in for these p oor guys.😢😊

[@daemon4621]

Once again pitching the idea when this finished to do a dnd campaign in one of these worlds!

[@printfogey5275]

This makes me so nostalgic for the XKCD "Time" story 😭 12 years have gone by so quickly

[@bagofcatsbagofcats1105]

there would have been quite a few rivers and creeks flowing down from the highlands. The rhone being the bigliest. How far before they deadended into saltlakes is the question. Trekking north(ish), depending on the exact starting point, would be my go-to (pun sadly intended)

[@mdelles]

Now I want to hear an episode of this that happens just after one of the Missoula floods of the pacific northwest

[@cloakedoblivion22]

I could listen to an hour long of the beginning narration! Just describing ecosystems and animals.

[@lisanorwoodtreefarm]

Re the goats: if they're doing a lot of mountain navigation, without needing to see predators coming up behind, then they might have benefited from the improved depth perception of forward facing eyes, like how a lot of arboreal primates need depth perception for navigating the canopy, even if they don't hunt meat. Re animal hazards: I think before you worry about the snakes, worry about that Moopsy that's about to pounce on Gabriel!

[@fireballninja01]

Woah. What an episode. I see that dang length; excited to hear it

[@avishalom2000lm]

Some suggestions: (1) travel only at night, or close to dawn/dusk when you can see predators/prey better on the horizon (2) don't go straight into the middle of the basin. Stay along the edges as much as possible. Temperature differences will lead to some pdecipitation, and with it things to eat. Also the best place for shelter, as tides from the past seas will have carved out caves and similar rocky chambers. (3) STAY AWAY FROM THE MACAQUES. Primate heirarchies are brutal, and even if they let you in you'll be at the bottom of eveything.

[@brunobengala2766]

Near Gibraltar? Head northwest until you find a nice cliffy atlantic coastline and settle there. You just founded Portugal! 😬

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

Why is the Wikipedia page for gerbils so sparse 😭

[@nebulan]

Gerbil experts! We call you to action!

[@rlosable]

I cannot read that word and not hear Lemmiwinks lyrics in my head.... 😂

[@jeremyjimenez8153]

I don’t think I’ve heard of this event before today.

[@kyguy2016]

I’m a simple man. When I see an Eons Surviving Deep Time episode post, I run.

[@ethandollarhide7943]

Reminder: " The Future is Wild" predicted that this would happen again at some point in the future.

[@deheavon6670]

And it probably will. So far we've been spared from it since the Eurasian plate is rotating clockwise as the African plate moves north.

[@revinaque1342]

I genuinely love this series 😊 Can we get Hank Green back as a guest?

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

I hope we can get more videos like this showing regions of land back in time.

[@kevincronk7981]

Would there be any fresh water? If all the sea water evaporated then the ground will be super salty so any water on that ground would be salty too

[@nebulan]

There's evidence for ancient rivers. Probably the best chance.

[@deheavon6670]

Not everywhere: in places the salt layer would eventually be buried by incoming sediment, mainly riverine but some from the wind too.

[@bagofcatsbagofcats1105]

adding to my comment below - I'm not sure of the local weather conditions in this landscape. Still, even in a rain shadow situation, the thing to do is go for the heights. About mid altitude the rain/water condensation will have collected in in creeks and runnils, carving protected green canyons. You find this anywhere you have a similar highland runoff to evaporite basin, like Death Valley, or the Atacama Desert. You want water? you climb. In the Mediterranean the worst salt desert/lake would be the Balearic Deep, between the Balearic Highlands (the present islands) and Sardinia. If you have to cross that saline death trap, do it preferably at night, and climb up the balearic islands (mountains in this case) or the Cote D'Azur cliffs, or Sardinia which is also a highland in this landscape. You're liable to find enough fresh water anywhere there. Mind you, in this hypothetical, the biggest problem wouldn't be be water but the competition: read lion or bear or whatever the miocene equivalent is, who will happily appreciate your contribution to dinner

[@theobozikis8225]

I remember going back to Greece as a kid and swimming in the Med. I accidentally swallowed some water and was shocked at how salty it was! I never for got it, and always wondered why that was. Now I know.

[@pepppery]

Kallie, don't forget that Jazz hands are an option for you @3:45. It's in the constitution

[@pdxcorgidad]

Ayyyy Ashfall Fossil Beds! I was raised right down the road from there. It's so great. (And yes I'm aware she did a residency there).

[@schrodingerscat3741]

"I'll bring back a cool rock" The scientists would riot

[@billkallas1762]

Don't go there, and if you are dumped off there, Run, run away.

[@Devlinator61116]

It would be awe inspiring to stand safely on top of a mountain and watch the Mediterranean basin rapidly refill.

[@waverod9275]

Sci-fi scenario: Some people in fact go back in time to this era and do the things you talked about. In response, macaques are under pressure to become more and more intelligent. The Zanclean flood is the result of a massive macaque geoengineering project, or possibly an attack on the time travelling humans.

[@erosion_of_earth]

Great Story telling but I wish you could show some geology of this so we could better understand the deposition of this event and the time surrounding it.

[@SiqueScarface]

45:00 You are golden here. All the calcite and the alum will at the bottom of the salt layer, and where you are standing, it will be pure sodiumchloride, as this is the last to settle.

[@jacobsutton9528]

I think these podcasts would be a great opportunity to bring on and highlight other paleontology/biology education creators from different channels.

[@kyt-nh1ef]

I'm with Gabriel here, despite growing up in Phoenix I still got heat sickness in SoCal

[@beamteammom5431]

I read a book in the 1980s or 90s called The Gandalara Cycle by Randall Garrett about a civilization that was in the Mediterranean during this time. The MSC has fascinated me ever since.

[@karlgoebeler1500]

Back in the 60's Nova (PBS) was a regular broadcast on channel 34 Watched it then and still include you as a regular. Also have PBS Terra

[@DrachenGothik666]

Nova first started broadcasting in the early 70's, not in the 60's. 1974, to be exact.

[@karlgoebeler1500]

@@DrachenGothik666 Must have been a Precursor to Nova Remember the program back when I was Young. Thank you

[@skybluskyblueify]

"Gerbils in the wild get most of their water from the food they eat, such as seeds, plants, and insects. They also drink dew from plants and catch it with their paws." Sez Google.

[@theunknownunknowns256]

I know it would make it a bit to easy but in the intro you were on the eastern edge, I'd stick to the northern edge.

[@neilrusling-je6zo]

Everyone in Europe right now would love some "hot dry and salty", it is bloody freezing.

[@MissCharliechop]

Love this series so much! So far I would not survive any of the eras, im too delicate.

[@kyjo72682]

It's not just the temperature and the dryness, it's also high atmospheric pressure. The pressure increases by 1 hPa with every 10m below sea level. So if you were for example at 2 km below sea level the pressure would be 1.26 atmospheres, and at 4 km (perhaps somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean basin) it would already be 1.57 atm. Not sure how long people could survive in that.. It would definitely be harder to breathe down there.

[@Brachiophore]

Next video: Could you survive the Zanclean megaflood? "No"

[@MichaelM-uw3mk]

The answer is easily yes. You could literally walk and still outpace the flood.

[@OlympusMew]

New episode on my bday 🎉❤

[@jimmyohara2601]

🎉 Happy Birthday 🎊 🎂.

[@AliHSyed]

Happy birthday ❤🎉

[@marianneb.7112]

I love this series. Thank you! 🎉

[@champagnehand]

Me shouting DIG A SUBTERRANEAN HOLE-HOME at my computer. I am too invested in these thought experiments.

[@BrianEthridge-wk6hz]

I know the Mediterranean has dried out at least twice. To know what the fauna and Flora was like when it was dry would be very very interesting to me.

[@Mordalon]

Hard to imagine this is that much worse than 1 year after the K-Pg event.

[@ilokivi]

Regional ecological disaster vs. global ecological catastrophe.

[@noticiasinmundicias]

The answer is always: No, I couldn't survive, but I'm going to watch it anways

[@jdmcmudy]

Intros are the best…

[@zainab58]

A gerbil can live for several days on a couple of hazelnuts and a dandelion leaf, so the sight of one isn't all that encouraging for a human.

[@masterchuck8772]

As someone from Spain.... I think you didn't count with the winds from the Sahara, hot and dusty. That alone would leave your skin, eyes, and respiratory system really messed up. As a Spaniard I would have headed north and crossed the Pyrenees. We here tend to look for shade during the day and travel throughout the night. I would have looked for the dew on rocks during the nighttime.

[@MichaelM-uw3mk]

How do you know the Sahara was a desert back then?

[@tenebrousoul9368]

Yes. I've mastered time and space to get here. Certainly I have some super tech to help me out.

[@SerDerpish]

28:17 an additional tidbit to what Kallie is saying here: in addition to the need for nutritional balance, this high-protein food source makes finding water even more important, as the high amino acid content of the rabbit meat could potentially cause irreversible renal damage if combined with a low daily urine output. This place sounds like no fun tbh 💀

[@CG-yh6js]

The answer is simply: yes! We are here aren't we? But the real question it raises: What civilization is lost to these coastlines? We already have found many cities under 75-125m of water in the Mediterranean. Were they built BEFORE the dam breach? And also : the Flood event present in most religion MUST be the dam breach event retold later.

[@Depipro]

Knowing Kallie's love for puns, I trust she'll give the macaques a pause by drawing up a huge poster advertising the theatre play: "Dr Jackal and Mr Hyena".

[@TheZinmo]

The first dozens or even hundreds of Meters down would not be so bad, especially around the big rivers like the Rhone or Nile. Just like the Jordan valley, down to the Dead Sea. The Adriatic would even be quite nice. But really deep down...

[@ThereBeDargons]

I mean arguably, yes. Head to them there hills. You certainly won't find any fresh water in the salty basin that is now the Mediterranean.

[@bohnetadam1922]

My impression is that just about all the animals crossing these salt flats did so rarely enough that their populations on the various islands/mountains being cut off and evolved separately there. So, I guess if, for some reason, you hang out in the salt flats, instead of going back to Gibraltar where you started, you probably wouldn't find many rabbits or hamsters or goats. If you did encounter them, presumably it would be when there was an unusual amount of rain and better weather, so that they could cross. But I am with others here. If your time machine drops you off in Gibraltar, presumably you would stay at the edge of the salt flats, rather than going deeply into them.

[@bohnetadam1922]

Of course, I absolutely accept that you would make little trips in. It would be crazy to arrive at Gibraltar this time, without travelling in. But why would one try to survive the salt flats long term, when there are gigantic hamsters and dwarf goats not far away!

[@frictionhitch]

I hope that you do a "Could you survived the worst case scenario 2100". Episode What is the worst case scenario No AMOC No Rain Forest No plankton Plastic brains No energy Mass extinction Soil collapse Let's hear the worst case scenario that is still backed up by the trends that science is currently measuring. Exactly how bad could it get, worst case?

[@AntoniusTyas]

Chalicothere is basically a sloth-gorilla horse. _Ancylotherium_ and _Anisodon_ are my favs. They're just so freaky weird.

[@autumnhomestead]

Really enjoyed this! What a fun concept to use to 'explore' this area in this time period!!!

[@DunantheDefender]

Hosts: "The Gerbil Event" Me: hey babe wake up, new Eons-inspired indie band name just dropped.

[@DunantheDefender]

"Honorary Macaque"

[@Fitzpatrick5380]

Kallie should make a series as a D&D campaign.

[@adithyaramachandran7427]

I’m rather intrigued by the characterization of the climate here. I imagine summers would be scorching, but what about winters ? Low pressure systems might bring rain to the western portions of this region, so I have a hard time thinking it would be completely dry. Also, what would night time temperatures look like. I believe the climate would be a lot like the Salt flats of western Utah, which is a tough climate, but not a constant scorcher.

[@monkeydance3894]

Please consider partnering with Gutsick Gibbon. Would love to see her on an episode covering gibbons or any monkey in general.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

Wouldn't the real first goal to survive be finding a way to climb out of the basin?

[@dweldredge]

"ZANCLEAN!" From the classic film: Dude, Where's my Mediterranean?

[@songerie846]

Loved the ideas of becoming adopted by the macaques or domesticating the jackals!😂

[@karlmark9967]

I know that Gerbils aren't closely related to beavers, BUT we can make a consideration, BECAUSE! There is a horror movie called Zombeavers. Now that's a Gerbil Event.

[@gdpirahna]

This is completely off the subject. Your t-shirt collection is pretty damned cool, Kallie. A weird idea for an episode would be you giving a short interesting story or explanation related to the words or picture on a few of your favorite shirts. You almost launched into story about the shirt you're wearing in this video, but cut yourself short. My thanks to you and ther rest of the Eons team. Your show is one of the best on YT.

[@MWhaleK]

There is a classic SciFi story set on an Earth where the dam that blocked the Atlantic from flowing into the Mediterranean basin.

[@MillicentOak]

It's funny how the longest river in the world can be flowing into a sea and it can still have barely any water flowing into it other than from the Atlantic. But it's true!

[@gregmazzeo]

Ok. I'd never heard of demostylids before. Now you need to do an episode on them! Pretty please!

[@jenniferreifel-st2vv]

Living in Az-once you the urban areas and get into the true desert,you will have nights. In the day, the desert absorbs heat but at night release heat. It can get very cold. If back then, you would have to just become more night crwatures

[@angelitabecerra]

Gabriel, I'm with you on the spider part 😬 Snakes, however, are my jam 😍

[@voyageurmike]

So much description of the destination you're stuck with for some reason, but nada about the "time machine" that deposits you there. Is this a Quantum Leap series where you keep getting randomly dropped into places that want to kill you? Would we be appearing a few days before the Zanclean Flood, with our luck? Maybe we are just meant to be tourists checking out the dam.

[@MacMcNurgle]

The obvious fun had makes it easy to watch. Thanks.

[@WouldbeSage]

Can't wait for the Hadean on April 1st.

[@happy_t-rex]

Great episode, I'm reading Julian May's Pliocene Saga at the moment, which is set for a large part in that area.

[@Metikoi]

I want the THE GERBIL EVENT as a t-shirt ngl.