[RightWhale]

The image killed my old P60, but it got down to the Caribbean before it died. What I have always liked about maps that showed the continental shelf is the drainage channels at the edges that are completely submersed now. There could have been maybe three basins in the Caribbean that were candidates for drying out, besides the areas that would have above sea level anyway. Who knows what is down there? In the English Channel you can see the bottom if you are sailing, it's not deep at all, but parts of the Caribbean are very deep.

[GeekDejure]

Calm down, RW . . . it's merely the remains of an ancient Cuban Cigar factory !!! ;-))

[blam]

"There could have been maybe three basins in the Caribbean that were candidates for drying out, besides the areas that would have above sea level anyway. Who knows what is down there?"

I wasn't thinking of a complete 'drying out' of the Gulf. Maybe a reduced, but stable water level. I have some 7,000 year old wood that was dredged ( pipelaying operation) up from the Santa Rosa Sound in northwest Florida. The report on this wood is that it was part of a larger coastal forest that was flooded 7,000 years ago. The wood is well preserved cypress.