robert ballard cyprus site:freerepublic.com
Posted on 08/20/2012 6:07:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/ballard-s-cyprus-sea-expedition-going-well/20120818
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/famous-oceanographer-comes-explore-sea-mountain/20120814
http://famagusta-gazette.com/titanic-explorer-ballard-in-cyprus-for-expedition-p16379-69.htm
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/40016
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If they find a red and white daredevil lure, it’s mine.
I’d like a chaise lounge made out of meteorites and fossil whale bones.
This sounds deep enough that it would not have been exposed during the last ice age.
Thanks SV!
Experts believe hippos arrived on Cyprus between 100,000 to 250,000 ago, and likely got smaller to adapt to the hilly island landscape. But scientists do not know how the animals reached Cyprus, which has never been physically linked to another land mass.
Some speculate that the Med may have been isolated at Gilbralter during the last Ice Age and the water levels of the Med may have gotten very low.
Either Ryan or Pittman, Noah's Flood, says that they have mapped deep scowering marks in the sea-floor at the entrance at Gilbralter like those leading into the Black Sea.
My research shows that the Mediterranean has completedly dried out 40+ times and the last time was five million years ago. So....
Some (Myself included) speculate that an event similar to the Black Sea deluge happend to the Med too.
Sorry...should read:
My search of the available data...
Something like that could explain how those hippos got to Cyprus.
It might, if hippos were wandering around more than five million years ago, and felt like strolling over miles of salt flats. :’)
Not five million years ago.
The whole thing didn't dry up so rainwater would have washed the salt into the areas that still contained water.
There could have been large, clear land areas (connected to the mainland, rinos wandered in) during the Ice Age. Once the ice melted, the rinos were isolated on the higher areas that are now islands, etc.
Speaking of meteorites, I’m seeing more meteors than usual here, high on the Rockies. Saw them nightly while out for only about a couple minutes each time (temps down to the low 20s F here now), way before the recent meteor shower. Still peeking out only a few times and seeing many of them nightly.
Blam may have something there. I see white alkali sediment that has been washed down into a few of the wet areas by snow melts from hills covered with sterile soil on this intermontane basin (more like a plateau). Lack of fertilization here due to residents shouting ubergrazing! over the years (mostly residents in government or retired from government always engaged in keeping productive riff-raff out). The land has been mostly unused for a very long time.
Fertilization (heavy farming) eventually lowers PH levels. Hard-packed, sterile soil PH tends to rise to a high alkali content.
[Experimenting with low-cost gardening—and yaks soon—on an extremely cold and windy place at a high elevation.]
Oops...pH, even.
Thanks!
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