Years before they came up with the Black Sea Flood, Ryan and Pitman (or perhaps it was just one of them) came up with the Gibraltar waterfall as the method by which the Mediterranean got filled/refilled.
Yup. That was Bill Ryan. There are salt deposits on the botton of the Med that are over a mile thick, it's a type of salt that forms only with the exposure to sunlight.
Further, The scowering(sp) marks found on the bottom near Gilbralter, I believe, occurred in the last 8-7,000 years.
Here is a map of the world's oceans reduced by a little over 300 ft.
During the Ice Age the world's oceans were reduced by 400-500 ft. Notice that the Med is closed off and divided in two, possibly three sections...and, this does not account for the drying that must have occurred.
I think when the water broke through at Gilbralter, it cascaded through each of the dams and climaxed with the flood of the Black Sea 7,600 years ago.
