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The real flood: Submerged prehistory
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| Thursday, April 10, 2014
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Posted on 04/12/2014 12:25:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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04/12/2014 12:25:19 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/12/2014 12:26:29 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/12/2014 12:26:42 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Very interesting article...thanks for posting. It had never occurred to me that the melting after the last glacial maximum would have inundated thousands of prehistoric coastal sites.
What puzzles me is the sea level rose over a period of 3,000 years. This isn’t Vesuvius-like cataclysm that froze people in their tracks. The inhabitants of these villages and cities had plenty of have time to move out of the way. Why wouldn’t they have taken their possessions with them? How hard would it be to move your boats and decorative paddles?
It’s refreshing, too, that this article doesn’t once mention the modern bogeyman of global warming and the threat of rising seas. If prehistoric man could adapt to sea level rises of up to 130 meters (!!), then I really think we can adapt to the faint possibility that modern sea levels might rise one meter.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Great points, great post!
To: ProtectOurFreedom
They left their junk behind, especially things that were too big or too hard to move. They probably had plenty of waterlogged junk, having endured several years of tidal floods that they had not seen in earlier years.
Thor, I’ve had enough of these spring floods. Either we pack up and move the village, or I am going home to Mother. Her great grand daughter probably said the same thing at the new village some years later.
To: centurion316
“Helga, go ahead and go home to your mother. I’ll miss you dearly, I will. Honestly.”
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/12/2014 1:36:15 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
04/12/2014 1:52:21 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv
Changes in sea level from 16,000 years ago to present in northwest Europe.
This is a dangerous field to study, they may even be accused of heresey against doctrine
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posted on
04/12/2014 2:03:45 PM PDT
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dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: SunkenCiv
prehistoric underwater archaeologists are still relatively rare.Probably has to do with the inability to employ hordes of local and student labor.
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posted on
04/12/2014 2:39:48 PM PDT
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fso301
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Tsunami. Read the info in the caption under The Europe That Was in Post 10. I imagine if there was one Storegga Landslide there were probably more in the same area from an earlier time as well.
To: ProtectOurFreedom; centurion316
“But Odin be damned if you think you are taking my boat and decorative paddle!”
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04/12/2014 4:38:04 PM PDT
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Rodamala
To: Bernard Marx
The caption points out the release of a glacial lake in North America as a proximate cause of the rapid sea level rise in Europe. I'm familiar with the release from Lake Bonneville 14,500 years ago which caused the Bonneville Flood. Geologists estimate that Lake Bonneville was lowered 350 ft over the course of a year. A total of 1,200 CUBIC MILES of water were discharged at a max rate of 1 million cubic meters per second (speed of 70 mph!). But, given that the surface area of the oceans is 139 million square miles, even that vast amount of water would raise global sea level only by a half-inch. So what North American glacial lake release are they talking about?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Likely the proglacial lakes whose remnants today are the Great Lakes, along with Great and Lesser Slave lakes. There were also significant proglacial lakes in Poland and western Siberia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz
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04/12/2014 5:38:44 PM PDT
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Fraxinus
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To: fso301
It’s hard to find people able to hold their breath more than 2 or 3 minutes. ;’)
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04/12/2014 6:57:04 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Probably ancient lake Missoula among many others; geologists are only beginning to piece together such events during the Big Melt. The Lake Missoula flood repeatedly released awesome amounts of water and created the formerly mysterious Scablands in Washington state. But it was just one event out of many worldwide.
This website describes what I believe happened: ICE AGE FLOODS
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I find it amazing that there was a time I could drive to France from England in my Hyundai where the English Channel is now.
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04/12/2014 7:20:58 PM PDT
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Nowhere Man
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To: concentric circles; blam
Nice map! I think I’ll swipe it right now...
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04/12/2014 7:25:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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