Posted on 07/08/2011 6:50:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/theory.html
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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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