Colossal Flood Created the Mediterranean Sea

Live Science ^ | Dec 9, 2009 | Andrea Thompson

[decimon]

The Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic Ocean waters breached the strait of Gibraltar, sending a massive flood into the basin.

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But exactly how the waters cut their way through and how long it took them to do so wasn't known.

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[blam]

"The point was that it had to dry out long enough for an impermeable cap to form over the salt deposits..."

Yup.

[bert]

word the street is he was a intern in Slartibartfast’s shop that was bored with fijords and was just screwing around

[xcamel]

mediterranean sill

[blam]

" I think the first suspicion was raised during the prelim to the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Checking for the depth of the bedrock, the engineers found that the Nile runs atop a filled-in gorge, not unlike many a river gorge in our own southwest. When the Mediterranean was mostly dry land, the Nile flowed into it at quite a bit lower elevation. After the Atlantic surged in, the seawater backed up into the gorge for many miles, probably helped fill it in, and the rest was contributed by the silt-bearing Nile flood. :') "

Yup. But there was a problem. The bottom layers of the silt contained salt water shells which indicated that salt water was 'upstream' as far as the Aswan dam. This data is used by one scientist (forgot who) to support his theory that the Ice Age melt water at one time (briefly) exceeded todays levels.

Also, I've read one description of the Nile Valley that compared it to the Grand Canyon during the Ice Age.

[SunkenCiv]

older:

The Mediterranean Was A Desert
geocities.com | 3-23-2003 | Alan Feuerbacher
Posted on 12/16/2003 7:26:48 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1041705/posts

the Etna thing:

Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami
In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8,000 Years Ago
Science Daily | 11-28-2006 | American Geophysical Union
Posted on 11/29/2006 3:03:09 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1746068/posts

GEOPHYSICS: Ancient Cataclysm Marred the Med
Science Magazine | 2006-12-08 | Jacopo Pasotti
Posted on 12/09/2006 2:24:21 PM PST by Lessismore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1751074/posts

sidebars:

Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC)
University Of Newcastle On Tyne | 9-12-2003
Posted on 12/09/2003 5:30:54 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1037248/posts

Prehistoric forest discovered off Key West — on sea bed (under 40 feet of water)
Keynews.com West — on sea b | Wed., Nov 13, 2002 | Mandy Bolen
Posted on 11/15/2002 7:34:31 PM EST by jimtorr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/789935/posts

[Pelham]

Don’t forget your towel.

[Little Bill]

Riddle me this Therea did the same thing in 1600 BC, the 6.5 Cu Km Stuff, and the suffering was minimal, we need a bigger bang than that.

We had a real Big bang around 1150 BC, Where(?), that destroyed Mediterranean Civilization, Blam has better ideas on that than I.

It would seem to me that if Etna went South, the coast line would limit the damage further east.

[blam]

Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed

"KINGSTON, R.I. – August 23, 2006 – An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed.

[blam]

SunkenCiv found this on too:

Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8,000 Years Ago

[grey_whiskers]

Did I ever tell you how I chopped down the entire Sahara Forest in just two weeks?

Cheers!

[Little Bill]

I think that they found less than 2CM of ash in Eastern Crete along with Tsunami action on the Northern Coast. The Neo Palatial period was at its hight after that period, LM II?.

The stuff that we should examine is the period around 1150. it seems to me that, as you pointed out years ago about the 2500 BC era in the middle east, a whole lot of strangeness going on.

[colorado tanker]

IIRC at one time the Med was regarded as a remnant of the Tethys Sea but I have a recollection that has been called into question, I would think by the history you cite.

[HalfFull]

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

[concentric circles]

[Little Bill]

The Book I refered to, “The Great Dying”, Kenneth Hsu. Mostly K/T boundary stuff, but a lot of Deep Drilling stuff also.

[LiteKeeper]

More like 2348 BC

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/653287/posts?page=113#113

[SunkenCiv]

• Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain

[SunkenCiv]

Thera didn’t do it, that’s how come. :’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1180724/posts

[BIGLOOK]

Wasn't there a sea there before? I'm referring to the Messinian Salinity Crisis, nearly 6 million years ago.