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Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood'
ScienceDaily ^
| April 3, 2012
| U of Oxford
Posted on 04/07/2012 12:01:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Images of coral off Tahiti sampled for the study (Credit: IODP)
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04/07/2012 12:01:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/07/2012 12:03:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/07/2012 12:03:54 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
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04/07/2012 12:07:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
And not an SUV or coal-fired power plant in sight....
Maybe carbon dioxide is not as much of a factor in planetary warming and/or cooling as once thought.
Could either A) a sudden surge of heat from the earth’s interior, released through geothermal vents or eruptions, or B) a sudden surge in the heat reaching the earth from the sun, due to the sun’s own heat release activity, have anything to do with the cataclysmic ice melting?
It takea an AWFUL lot of heat units to convert so much ice to liquid water. Check the textbooks on this.
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posted on
04/07/2012 12:19:16 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(It is hard to get a man to understand, when his pay depends upon his not understanding something.)
To: SunkenCiv
And Noah said, "what's a cubit?"
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04/07/2012 12:21:19 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Steyn: "If Greece has been knocking back the ouzo, we're face down in the vat.")
To: SunkenCiv
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04/07/2012 12:28:22 PM PDT
by
AnalogReigns
(because REALITY is never digital...)
To: NonValueAdded
But first he asked: “What’s an ark?”
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posted on
04/07/2012 1:04:21 PM PDT
by
jettester
(I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
To: SunkenCiv
The team has used dating evidence from Tahitian corals to constrain the sea level rise to within a period of 350 years, although the actual rise may well have occurred much more quickly and would have been distributed unevenly around the world's shorelines.
???
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posted on
04/07/2012 2:09:52 PM PDT
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Roccus
To: Roccus
That didn’t make sense to me either.
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04/07/2012 2:55:43 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: SunkenCiv
in a few tens of decades.
Lets see if my math is still up to par. A decade is ten years, ten decades would mean a hundred years, tens of decades loosely translated would equal to about 500 years so a few of those would equal to at least 2000 years......
We're screwed!
To: Roccus; TigersEye; SunkenCiv; TheOldLady
The team has used dating evidence from Tahitian corals to constrain the sea level rise to within a period of 350 years, although the actual rise may well have occurred much more quickly and would have been distributed unevenly around the world's shorelines.Except of course at Tahiti.
I think what they are talking about is a catastrophic melt. Happening very quickly it would seem the water levels nearer the poles would raise faster than the levels closer to the equator. Something that would happen as white hot Venus comes cruising by on it's way to become planet number 2.
Which explains what happened to Atlantis. 2 giant waves of water, one from the South, one from the North meet at Atlantis. The enormous upthrust of water submerges the huge power crystal and it goes nova. When the water recedes, levels out, Atlantis is gone.
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04/07/2012 3:35:09 PM PDT
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bigheadfred
(MY PET TAPEWORM (OBIWAN) IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
To: bigheadfred
I just knew there was a reasonable explanation. :-)
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04/07/2012 3:41:33 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: TigersEye; SunkenCiv
I kinda like to stick to the Venus thing. A one time event. The thought of the dark side of the moon being a huge mirror (think ‘burning mirrors of Archimedes’) and that the aliens can spin the moon around and fry us like burning ants with a magnifying glass, or melting the poles just for the heck of it, frightens me. I don’t know why that is.
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04/07/2012 5:48:15 PM PDT
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bigheadfred
(MY PET TAPEWORM (OBIWAN) IS AN INSANE MILITARY HATING LEFTIST)
To: bigheadfred
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04/07/2012 6:23:10 PM PDT
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Roccus
To: bigheadfred
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. So be afraid. Be very afraid!
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04/07/2012 7:44:27 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: bigheadfred
Ooh, and here’s another ... 3,600 x 4 = 14,400.
Just in case you needed to work that 2012 deal in somewhere along the way, lol.
To: alloysteel
The melting inland is known to have accumulated in spots, until the ice dams themselves melted, unleashing the meltwaters and producing (for just one instance) the Channeled Scablands.
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04/07/2012 8:20:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Hot Tabasco
:’) The article gives a figure of 350 years.
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04/07/2012 8:21:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/07/2012 8:21:48 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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