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Posted on 07/08/2011 6:50:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bulgarian scientists have found the ancient shores of the Black Sea, currently deep beneath the waves, which they claim were the original shores about 7500 years ago, when the Black Sea at the time was just a fresh water lake...
The team, led by Professor Petko Dimitrov of the Institute of Oceanology in Varna, which is part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), returned from an expedition aboard the research vessel Akademik, saying that they have found the ancient coastline close to the Cape of Emine. Archaeological evidence suggest that this particular spot was part of the ancient coastline, the BNT said.
The common theory of the creation of the Black Sea says that there was a massive deluge through the straits of Bosporus (modern Istanbul), where waters from the Mediterranean flooded into the lake. Once the Mediterranean Sea breached the Bosporus Strait, it irreversibly changed the history of the people in the area, as well as the flora and fauna.
In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman published evidence that a massive flooding of the Black Sea occurred about 5600 BCE through the Bosporus. According to the theory, glacial melt-water had turned the Black and Caspian Seas into vast freshwater lakes draining into the Aegean Sea before that event. As glaciers retreated, some of the rivers emptying into the Black Sea declined in volume and changed course to drain into the North Sea...
Part of the Bulgarian expedition was also Professor William Ryan, a geologist at Columbia University. "As a true scientist, until the results are finalised, I will reserve doubts about the theory of Professor Petko Dimitrov, that this part of the coastline was indeed affected by the flood and that this was the ancient shoreline," he said, cited by the BNT.
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Can’t be...
Saint AL Gore and Messiah Obama told us that only Evil Coal and SUV’s cause the oceans to rise....
When I was in highschool (over 30 years ago) the prevailing wisdom was that there wasn’t any life in the Black Sea below 600 feet due to the high CO2 saturation of the sea water. I wonder if this fairly new theory offers any explanation.
Did they find any ruins on the ancient coast line?
The deal is there is a natural shelf (obviously a sea level strand) that looks to be about 75 miles wide in this area. It's quite wide to the North along Ukraine.
I find it curious somebody still finds it necessary to "prove" the Black lake once existed ~ i'd think the burden of proof would be on the guys who don't think it existed.
The sea level really did drop all over the world about 114,000 years ago. About 7500 years back this was the LAST part to get re-flooded.
Note, there's an area of coastal China (near FuQuinWang) that appears to be a tad unstable. Over the last 8,500 years it's risen and dropped due to earthquakes, floods, etc. People have lived in the region for 30,000 years ~ this is opposite Taiwan where people have also lived for 30,000 years or thereabouts.
All of which is neither here nor there, but the present native population of this area back 5,000 years ago suffered some extensive earth movements and they took to the sea adopting a fishing economy. They later settled Taiwan, then the Riyukuyus and Southern Japan, Fiji, the entirity of Polynesia, and maybe even parts of Chile and Middle America.
Recent discoveries have established that it was the people already in this area who became the Polynesians ~ not Han Chinese who moved South to farm rice. Even though this area has long term flooding it's not suitible for rice. instead, they farm other grains (wheat, barley, rye) and fish.
It all makes sense and ties the root Polynesian language known to make up part of modern Japanese to all the other branches of Polynesia.
This could be a major archeological mine.
The evidence of a coastal beach far below current sea levels in the Black Sea is solid. The Flood theory, well, not so clear.
There are PULSES of ocean level rise of quite significant size ~ one is at 14,000 years ago, and another occurs in the 11,000 year ago period, then one as the Younger Dryas melts in the North (about 9500 years ago), and another one about 7500 years ago in various spots (Black sea) and China Coast, and West Coast of South America ~
These things are all easier to understand if you can come to grips with the idea that Modern Man and his civilization is really, really, really recent! Otherwise this planet was a desolate wasteland of vast dusty deserts and icefields (for the most part). Then, all at once it became a place of fertility and warmth.
Didn’t Bob Ballard find this a couple years ago?
He took a peek at the continental shelf, found some stuff.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1881156/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1182621/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/950903/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/948140/post
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/robertballard/index
Thanks D.
I wholeheartedly agree.
This study was done to rule in or out the catastrophic rise of the Black Sea to the level seen today. There are still some gradualists who haven’t died off yet.
They imagine limestone escarpments leak a lot more than they really do.
:’)
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