Drilling under the Dead Sea through four Ice Ages [ 500K years ]

Jerusalem Post ^ | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | Ehud Zion Waldoks

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An int'l research team at urging of TAU, Hebrew U. professors will drill half a kilometer to study year-by-year climate change from 500,000 years ago... The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program chose the Dead Sea as the site of its next drilling at the urging of Tel Aviv University's Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and the Israel Geological Survey's Dr. Mordechai Stein... sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities... "We will be taking out a vertical piece about half a kilometer long which will allow us to get a picture of climate change on a year-by-year basis going back 500,000 years," he said. Ben-Avraham heads the initiative along with Stein of the Hebrew University's Institute of Earth Sciences, and Prof. Michael Lazar of the University of Haifa is project manager. Because the surface of the Dead Sea is more than 400 meters below sea level, it is a drainage basin for water from all over Israel and beyond. That water has brought sediment along with it, which laid layer upon layer of stored geologic information throughout hundreds of thousands of years. The researchers believe the sample will reveal detailed evidence of annual rainfall, climate change, droughts, floods, dust storms, earthquakes and more over the last roughly 500,000 years.

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Photo by: Ariel Jerozolimski/The Jerusalem Post)

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The Age of the Dead Sea
Immanuel Velikovsky

...The rivers Zerka (Callirhoe) and Arnon, which flow into the sea from the east, carry salt solutions from many springs. The shores of the Dead Sea abound in highly concentrated thermal springs which contain rich amounts of magnesium... When these factors are taken into consideration the age of the Dead Sea, computed on the basis of its magnesium content, must be drastically reduced... The proportion of sodium to magnesium in the water of the Jordan is about 4:1; in the Dead Sea it is 1:2. If the Jordan were the only source of the sodium for the Dead Sea the age of the Dead Sea would be only about 6,000 years. But the thermal sources on the western, eastern, and southern shores contain sodium too; so may the submarine sources, which cannot be evaluated. It is likely, therefore, that the sea has existed for only about four thousand years. When again the fact is taken into account that the thermal sources are usually more concentrated when they first break out and when they are at a higher temperature, it may well be asked why the age of this sea should not be reduced still more. It is probable that deeper levels of water have a greater salt concentration. Fifty thousand years as the age of the Dead Sea was an unexpectedly low estimate: the rift in which the Dead Sea is situated is considered to be the result of a catastrophe at the beginning of the first glacial period. Now a simple reckoning shows that the saline sea with the Jordan has not existed longer than five thousand years.

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[UCANSEE2]

“Because the surface of the Dead Sea is more than 400 meters below sea level, it is a drainage basin for water from all over Israel and beyond.”

Well, it ought to be a real goldmine, then.

[UCANSEE2]

OK. A real magnesium mine.

[SunkenCiv]

Epson salts and Sweetarts! Yay!

[SunkenCiv]

another postworthy topic:

Science devises new method to sort Dead Sea Scrolls (Feature)
By Jean-Baptiste Piggin Nov 15, 2010, 1:06 GMT
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/features/article_1598963.php

[Mr. K]

Did they find the SUV’s that the cavemen drove that caused the first few ‘global warming’- i mean ‘climate change’s

[DManA]

It bemuses me that Big Media always prints articles about experiments that are ABOUT to be done. But rarely prints articles with the RESULTS.

[Bodleian_Girl]

It is likely, therefore, that the sea has existed for only about four thousand years.

Great post, thank you.

[bigheadfred]

"People talk about how we are in the midst of several years of a dry spell now and say it must be coming to an end. Well, there have been dry spells of hundreds of years, so maybe we shouldn¹t be so sure," Ben-Avraham said. We have noticed that climate events have come in clusters, he added.

Wonder is any of those clusters resemble the climate cluster-ummm...event Al Gore and his buddies have created?

[mountainlion]

This could be interesting. There used to be “smoke” coming out of the dead sea from a volcano and there is still the smell of sulphate.

[fruser1]

There were not 4 ice ages in the last 500k years.

There were 4 GLACIATIONS (where ice advances).

We are currently in an ice age that is 4 million years old.

There have been 60 glaciations in that time period.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/when_ice_ages.html

[UCANSEE2]

Interesting. I wonder, after they technologically devise the best translation, how long it will take to convince people it’s correct?

[UCANSEE2]

Did they find the SUV’s that the cavemen drove that caused the first few ‘global warming’- i mean ‘climate change’s

All the SUV's were smashed flat as a pancake by the larger dinosaurs.

Which is where our oil comes from. Smashed SUV's.

[Spok]

At the end of the prior ice ages, do you suppose the world went into a global warming panic? What did they blame it on?

[worst-case scenario]

No idea about a “panic,” but there certainly is evidence that humans had to migrate and change civilization patterns because of climate change.

What did they blame it on? God’s will. Back then, they didn’t have any scientific evidence of anything else - no climate records, or studies of various changing chemical levels in the atmosphere.

[gleeaikin]

While I have liked Velikovsky since I first read several of his books about 35 years ago, I by no means believe everything he says. We will no doubt see how long the Dead Sea has actually been there once they start counting the layers (varves) laid down each year by the annual rainfall cycles. Also, I am wondering whether there could have been any catastrophic flooding caused by the sudden influx of the Atlantic Ocean into The Mediterranean once the Pillars of Hercules were breached by post glacial sea level rise. Also, as you have pointed out, there appears to be a 2 mile diameter boloid strike in the Iraq marshes from 4,000 years ago. Perhaps there has been a significant boloid strike in the Mediterranean which could have flooded the Dead Sea. How high is the lowest terrain between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea? A catastrophe of that sort would certainly be visible in drilling cores. Can’t wait to see the results of drilling.

[ApplegateRanch]

Hebrew U. professors will drill half a kilometer to study year-by-year climate change from 500,000 years ago

Total waste of time and money! Any climate change prior to 1885 was natural; everything since is Articifical Human Caused Catastrophic Climate Disruption*, so anything we learn about the past has no bearing on this brand new, unnatural destruction of the homoshpere.

Ref: Nobel Peace Prize Committee; IPCC; NASA, NOAA; Gore, et al; Greenpeace; Earth First!; WWF; Sierra Club; ALF; ELF; PETA, and several other altruistic, unbiased, research organizations trying to save us from the Suicidal Special Interest Groups bent upon destroying us all, including themselves for profit.

*AHC³D AKA A-Hs Constantly Clamoring (for) Contributions (to) Democrats