Ancient Superflood Brought Climate Chaos

ABC Science News ^ | 8-15-2003 | Bob Beale

[Travis McGee]

Your novel deals with rapid climate change doesn't it?

Do you have a link to that FR thread on it?

[StriperSniper]

Bump for later.

[Snidely Whiplash]

Here is a worldwide map of the oceans with the water level reduced by about 300 feet.

Hey, that's pretty cool. Good thing I've got a high-speed connection, as it's a 3.5MB file. : )

I'd imagine that were the levels reduced another 200 feet, it'd be a very different map indeed.

Snidely

[Travis McGee]

No problemo. Rapid climate shift is finally reaching mass awareness, making your novel's plot very timely.

[blam]

"I'd imagine that were the levels reduced another 200 feet, it'd be a very different map indeed."

Yup. Even at about 300 feet reduction, I like to play with the idea of the waters cascading over and into the Mediterranean at Gibralter, up to and then cascading over the next barrier until it finally reached the Black Sea and caused Noah's Flood.(?) There would have been refugees and rumors of flood all over the Mediterranean area for years. Noah would have know about the flood well before it started raining.

[goody2shooz]

Yes. Hancock's book, Underworld, explains that the Persian Gulf was above sea level 12,500 years ago and over a six thousand year period was flooded in stages. A very enlightening book. Explains how many cultures world-wide have similiar flood myths, probably describing the same sea flooding events.

[Carry_Okie]

I think this flood is about 800 years too early.

How long would the resulting rise in sea levels take to make it from the Arctic into the Mediterranean? What is the tolerance of either analysis?

[Carry_Okie]

There is evidence of three such floods, one about twice the size of the others. I don't have the dates and numbers for the serial sea-level rises handy, but the rises each took perhaps two weeks and raised sea levels instantly 100 to 200 feet worldwide.

This is a chart of coral reef die-offs due to changes in Pacific Coast sealevel.

[uglybiker]

Ancient superflood brought climate chaos: women and minorities hardest hit.

Memebers of the Rubble and Flintstone Clans taken in for questioning.

[blam]

"How long would the resulting rise in sea levels take to make it from the Arctic into the Mediterranean? What is the tolerance of either analysis?"

Don't know the answer to either question.

My scenerio has many bodies of water isolated by 'barriers' that formed during low water level periods during the Ice Age and then breaking through, with still undefined dates, as the water rose from the Ice Age.
Look at the map in post #51. These 'break-throughs' would include areas such as the Red Sea (Exodus?), Persian Gulf, Mediterranean(in stages), Gulf Of Mexico and the Black Sea(Noah's Flood?)....and many other areas un-named here.

[blam]

"How long would the resulting rise in sea levels take to make it from the Arctic into the Mediterranean? What is the tolerance of either analysis?"

Don't know the answer to either question.

My scenerio has many bodies of water isolated by 'barriers' that formed during low water level periods during the Ice Age and then breaking through, with still undefined dates, as the water rose from the Ice Age.
Look at the map in post #51. These 'break-throughs' would include areas such as the Red Sea (Exodus?), Persian Gulf, Mediterranean(in stages), Gulf Of Mexico and the Black Sea(Noah's Flood?)....and many other areas un-named here. The 'break-through's' could also have been caused by other natural events such as earthquakes, volcanos, asteriod impacts and etc. (at random dates)

[RightWhale]

How long would the resulting rise in sea levels take to make it from the Arctic into the Mediterranean?

A monster wave would make the distance in a few hours. Water itself, even if it flows at a leasurely 100 miles per hour would take only a couple days.

[Carry_Okie]

Wave energy is a very different thing than a mass flow. Put a bobber out in the ocean and watch the waves run under it. Currents move at a rate of a few miles per hour. A cold fresh water layer might move slower than that, particularly under an ice sheet as it would have to do under Hudson Bay.

[Lazamataz]

Ancient Superflood Brought Climate Chaos

No it didn't.

It was Dubya.

[Lazamataz]

Ancient Superflood Brought Climate Chaos

No it didn't.

It was Dubya.

[RightWhale]

Wave energy is a very different thing than a mass flow

You asked how long it would take sea level to move from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. The wave a few hours, the mass of water a couple days.

[Carry_Okie]

A change in sea level requires mass transport, not just a transmission of peak energy.

[Mark17]

was this great flood of Noah's time...

I think you are right.

[RightWhale]

We're not communicating. I said a couple days.