Some researchers suspect a space impactor may have been involved
Posted on 05/03/2009 8:09:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Some researchers suspect a space impactor may have been involved
Luv it when they say, “Rare”” WTF is *rare* in geologic time?
I think you are confusing Vesuvius with something in the Canaries or Azores. There is an unstable slope that it is feared could collapse into the ocean trigering a major tsunami. A few years back there was a CSI Miami episode based on that idea. Thirty foot high wave.
Vesuvius would only affect the Mediterrean basin, not the Atlantic Ocean.
This makes much more sense. Thanks for the correction.
Romans and BarbariansIn fact the German heartland appears to have lain in the southern Baltic and north coastal areas of today's Germany. However, in the late 2nd century BC the Germans began to move southwards into the Rhineland and Belgium, setting in motion events which would shake Roman confidence and fuel her longstanding fear of the morthern peoples. Two tribes migrated from Jutland, 'driven from their lands by a great flood-tide.'(p 70)[footnote: Strabo, Geography, 7.2.1]
by Derek WilliamsII. As for the Cimbri, some things that are told about them are incorrect and others are extremely improbable. For instance, one could not accept such a reason for their having become a wandering and piratical folk as this--that while they were dwelling on a Peninsula they were driven out of their habitations by a great flood-tide; for in fact they still hold the country which they held in earlier times; and they sent as a present to Augustus the most sacred kettle in their country, with a plea for his friendship and for an amnesty of their earlier offences, and when their petition was granted they set sail for home; and it is ridiculous to suppose that they departed from their homes because they were incensed on account of a phenomenon that is natural and eternal, occurring twice every day. And the assertion that an excessive flood-tide once occurred looks like a fabrication, for when the ocean is affected in this way it is subject to increases and diminutions, but these are regulated and periodical.
Geography, 7.2.1
by Strabo
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