Aegean Sea: CO2 opalescent pools found at site of volcanic eruption that wiped out Minoan...

International Business Times ^ | 7/17/15 | Hannah Osborne

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[SunkenCiv]

from the FRchives, the Calliste keyword:

• Debate Erupts Anew: Did Thera's Explosion Doom Minoan Crete? [10/23/2003]
• SCIENTISTS REVISIT AN AEGEAN ERUPTION FAR WORSE THAN KRAKATOA [10/24/2003]
• 50 Ancient Tombs Uncovered (1400BC, Crete) [07/18/2004]
• New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption [07/29/2004]
• Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in (Minoan) Bronze Age wall paintings. [03/02/2006]
• Director posits proof of biblical Exodus [04/14/2006]
• ARCHAEOLOGY: New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean [04/27/2006]
• Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Treerings, Suggest Rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean History (More) [04/29/2006]
• Explorer Ballard heads exploration of undersea volcano [05/19/2006]
• Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed [08/23/2006]
• Greece Is The Word For Volcanoes (Thera) [08/25/2007]
• How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History [10/28/2007]
• Pumace As A Time Witness (Archaeology) [06/23/2008]
• Thera eruption in 1613 [12/03/2008]
• Real Tsunami May Have Inspired Legend of Atlantis [10/10/2009]
• A Storm in Egypt during the Reign of Ahmose [The Tempest Stele] [11/01/2009]
• Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii -- part 1 [of 6] [11/01/2009]
• Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii -- part 2 [07/07/2013]
• Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii -- part 3 [07/20/2013]
• Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii -- part 4 [07/21/2013]
• Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii -- part 5 [07/22/2013]
• Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii -- part 6 [07/25/2013]
• In the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunamis From an Ancient Eruption [11/05/2009]
• New analysis on problems between archaeology and pharaonic chronology, based on radiocarbon dating [06/17/2010]
• Nebra sky disk discarded because of volcanic ash, scientists say [08/23/2010]
• Atlantis: The Evidence [ Thera, Crete, the usual modern myths ] [05/20/2012]
• Will Ancient Akrotiri Face Another Massive Eruption? [09/21/2012]
• Which volcanoes impacted ancient climate? Sulphur tells the story [02/14/2013]
• Fossil Insects Tweak Date of Deadly "Atlantis" Eruption [08/25/2013]
• Ancient city of Iasos rises out of the ashes [09/30/2013]
• Greek Island of Santorini Volcano Erupted in 16th Century [03/22/2014]
• World's Oldest Weather Report Found on 3500-Year-Old Stone in Egypt [09/04/2014]
• Aegean Sea: CO2 opalescent pools found at site of volcanic eruption that wiped out Minoan... [07/18/2015]

[DesScorp]

They is a series... What???

The writer speaks Jive.

[uglybiker]

[gleeaikin]

I’m inclined to think that Crete was the hub and Santorini an outlyer. If I remember correctly, Akrotiri was probably abandoned about 20 years earlier because of severe earthquake (preliminary to the big explosion). I believe that the major tsunami destroyed the shipbuilding coastline of Crete, and killed many of the shipbuilding craftsmen. Thus, although Crete did not fall immediately, and ships that were at sea came home, all efforts would have concentrated on repairs, and very little on building new ships. Thus, severe social dislocation, trade difficulties, loss of income and vulnerability to attacks from within or without, and the subsequent signs of burning and other disorder. As a separate thought, I think part of the artistic creativity and freshness described for the new monotheistic city, Amarna, in Egypt was because they hired refugee artisans from Crete.

[rlmorel]

Interesting...thanks for that angle.

[gleeaikin]

I too am working on a book. This one on the eruption of Pelee on Martinique in 1902, and the series of volcanoes that year all around the Caribbean Plate. If you care to communicate Private Message, I would be interested.

[SunkenCiv]

Alas, there was no supereruption/

In the long chrono (17th c BC eruption hypothesis) the Minoans continued as if nothing happened for almost 200 years. That idea is, of course, makes nonsense of the impact of the eruption, but is consistent with the fact that there wasn’t one.

In the short chrono (15th or 16th c BC eruption hypothesis) the Minoans continued as if nothing happened for almost 100 years. That idea is, of course, makes nonsense of the impact of the eruption, but is consistent with the fact that there wasn’t one.

There is no evidence of a tsunami, by which I mean, there’s no remains of any large and higher-altitude debris line, anywhere in the Aegean basin. That’s difficult to reconcile (ahem) with such a large event, but is consistent with the fact that there wasn’t one.

Minoans were in Egypt during the 18th dynasty, but that dynasty wasn’t anywhere near as long ago as the 17th c BC (Amarna was actually late 9th c BC; the conventional pseudochronology is way off).

[gleeaikin]

I was researching another question and came across this article. It lists measurements of ash fall in various areas around the Mediterranean and in ice cores. I get the impression that most feel this evidence indicates a major eruption.

http://www.ancient.eu/thera/

[SunkenCiv]

There’s literally no trace of a 2nd m BC Theran eruption in any ice core, anywhere.

The ash layer (actually undated, but assumed of course to be from the supposed supereruption) on Crete is measured in mm.

The caldera of Thera is 10s of 1000s of years old, perhaps 100s of 1000s.