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Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8,000 Years Ago
Science Daily ^ | 11-28-2006 | American Geophysical Union

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


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 11/29/2006 3:03:13 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

Bush's fault.


2 posted on 11/29/2006 3:04:38 PM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: blam

Global Warming to blame.


3 posted on 11/29/2006 3:05:10 PM PST by Fan of Fiat
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To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.

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.

4 posted on 11/29/2006 3:05:26 PM PST by blam
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To: Cobra64

Beat me to it


5 posted on 11/29/2006 3:08:38 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: blam
"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."

Ah, I remember it well. It was a Tuesday, it was raining and I was waiting for a stop light to change.....

: )

6 posted on 11/29/2006 3:09:38 PM PST by jmax
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To: blam
They also speculate that this tsunami may have led to the abandonment of a Neolithic village in Israel.

"The Flood"?

7 posted on 11/29/2006 3:19:06 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: zot

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.


8 posted on 11/29/2006 3:22:59 PM PST by GreyFriar ( (3rd Armored Division - Spearhead))
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To: GreyFriar

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.


9 posted on 11/29/2006 3:28:24 PM PST by sine_nomine (No more RINO presidents. We need another Reagan.)
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To: jmax

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.


10 posted on 11/29/2006 3:30:31 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: blam
8,000 Years Ago

8,000 years ago? No way! that would have been full almost 2,000 years before earth was created.

11 posted on 11/29/2006 3:32:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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To: blam

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.


12 posted on 11/29/2006 4:06:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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"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."

The Black Sea flood is dated to 7,600 years ago. Maybe?

13 posted on 11/29/2006 4:09:54 PM PST by blam
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To: jmax

All those buses parked side by side.


14 posted on 11/29/2006 4:12:01 PM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Fan of Fiat

I am sitting here totally miserable and stressed over what happened 8,000 years ago.


15 posted on 11/29/2006 4:14:28 PM PST by dforest (Don't get fooled, the bigger struggle is still out there, and growing)
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To: blam

No photos?


16 posted on 11/29/2006 4:17:03 PM PST by null and void (To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. --Reba McEntire)
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To: Revolting cat!

Please don't do that.


17 posted on 11/29/2006 4:18:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blam

What's a "large" tsunami?


18 posted on 11/29/2006 4:20:58 PM PST by muleskinner
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What's a "large" tsunami?

It's a tsunami bigger than a medium sized tsunami, and much bigger than a small tsunami.
19 posted on 11/29/2006 4:29:43 PM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001 (Osama Obama Obama)
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To: TXnMA

Or the parting of the Red Sea?


20 posted on 11/29/2006 4:29:47 PM PST by expatpat
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