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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:04:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > I just don't know how far-reaching or pervasive the effects of such a
> > (relatively) localized flood could have been; did the people in Sumer really
> > feel the waters of the Black Sea rising around them? I know you're not
> > suggesting that they did, but I'm concerned that the more literal-minded
> > might use the Black Sea inundation as proof of a world-wide flood.
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> There's also evidence that the filling of the Mediterranean was witnessed as
> well. An event that large most likely was felt in Sumer, probably by the
> entire Fertile Crescent.
D'oh! Even as I posted my earlier message I was thinking about this.
There are, of course, numerous submerged archaeological sites in the
shallows and not-so-shallows of the Mediterranean.
I'll still stand by my assertion that the flooding of the Mediterranean
would have done little to kill wooly mammoths in what is now northern Siberia.
Dave!
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| (...) There's also evidence that the filling of the Mediterranean was witnessed as well. An event that large most likely was felt in Sumer, probably by the entire Fertile Crescent. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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