Posted on 11/29/2006 3:03:09 PM PST by blam
Source: American Geophysical Union
Date: November 28, 2006
Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8000 Years Ago
Geological evidence indicates that the eastern flanks of Mt. Etna volcano, located on Italy's island of Sicily, suffered at least one large collapse nearly 8,000 years ago.
Pareschi et al. modeled this collapse and discovered that the volume of landslide material, combined with the force of the debris avalanche, would have generated a catastrophic tsunami, which would have impacted all of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Simulations show that the resulting tsunami waves would have destabilized soft marine sediments across the floor of the Ionian Sea.
The authors note that field evidence for this destabilization can be seen in other scientists' accounts of widespread large chaotic deposits of sediments in the Ionain and Sirte Abyssal Plains and tsunami-related deposits called homogenite on local depressions of the Ionian seafloor. They also speculate that this tsunami may have led to the abandonment of a Neolithic village in Israel.
Title: The lost tsunami
Authors: Maria Teresa Pareschi, Enzo Boschi, and Massimiliano Favalli: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Pisa, Italy.
Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.1029/2006GL027790, 2006
Bush's fault.
Global Warming to blame.
If the Mediterranean sea was blocked off from the worlds oceans at this time, as I suspect, the Med would have been severely dessicated and the tsunami impact would have been substancially less.
Beat me to it
Ah, I remember it well. It was a Tuesday, it was raining and I was waiting for a stop light to change.....
: )
"The Flood"?
Possible tsunami 8,000 years ago; breaching of natural dam between the Mediterrean Sea and the current Black Sea 6,000 or more years ago.
I wonder if there is a possible link....and this would be nice flood story.
Rehwinkel's The Flood posits a vast number of disasters all hitting at once, causing the Genesis Flood, which was the will of God.
Although Velikovsky can be weird and rationalistic, I appreciate his willingness to view the past as chaotic rather than immutable.
I remember it too, it washed away my second home at the beach. Then the insurance company wouldnt pay up, and we had to bull doze the dunes back in place.
8,000 years ago? No way! that would have been full almost 2,000 years before earth was created.
Thanks Blam. I'll ping this to GGG and the Catastrophism list.
must have been one of those, "Etna, I'm not so sure I'm glad I met ya" moments of ancient times.
The Black Sea flood is dated to 7,600 years ago. Maybe?
All those buses parked side by side.
I am sitting here totally miserable and stressed over what happened 8,000 years ago.
No photos?
Please don't do that.
What's a "large" tsunami?
Or the parting of the Red Sea?
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