Such a wave today would flood Wall Street and the Long Island Expressway
Posted on 05/03/2009 8:09:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jersey and casting wood debris far up the Hudson River. The scenario, proposed by scientists, is undergoing further examination to verify radiocarbon dates and to rule out other causes of the upheaval. Sedimentary deposits from more than 20 cores in New York and New Jersey indicate that some sort of violent force swept the Northeast coastal region in 300BC. It may have been a large storm, but evidence is increasingly pointing to a rare Atlantic Ocean tsunami. Steven Goodbred, an Earth scientist at Vanderbilt University, said large gravel, marine fossils and other unusual deposits found in sediment cores across the area date to 2,300 years ago. The size and distribution of material would require a high velocity wave and strong currents to move it, he said, and it is unlikely that short bursts produced in a storm would suffice. "If we're wrong, it was one heck of a storm," said Dr Goodbred.
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Such a wave today would flood Wall Street and the Long Island Expressway
ping.
A wave like that wouldn’t do the subway much good, either.
Your pic looks like Mazatlan, MX. Am I right?
Geez! Is that pic real or photoshop? The wave in the top-right has to be 60-feet high — that’s huge for something that close to a broad shoreline...
Yes, but would it take the NYT's building and it's staff out to sea? That's really all I care about.
“Dr Goodbred imagines that the New York wave was on the Grand Banks scale - three to four metres high and big enough to leap over the barrier islands...”
10-12 feet high? I’m underwhelmed.
Still Bush’s fault.
There is also supposed to be another one again in the future if the side of a mountain [ Mount Vesuvius I think ] in Europe collapses into the ocean waters.
what did modern man do to cause this?
In 4 billion years, there were probably more natural disasters than we could imagine. And some were probably horrifying enough that we wouldn’t want to imagine them.
I think it’s a landmass in the Azores.
Sustained hot air mass from Kenya.
lol
Unusual layers in sediment cores may be a sign of an ancient tsunami
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