SCIENTISTS REVISIT AN AEGEAN ERUPTION FAR WORSE THAN KRAKATOA

The New York Times ^ | 21 October 2003 | WILLIAM J. BROAD

[Mike Darancette]

For decades, scholars have debated whether the eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean more than 3,000 years ago brought about the mysterious collapse of Minoan civilization at the peak of its glory. The volcanic isle (whose remnants are known as Santorini) lay just 70 miles from Minoan Crete, so it seemed quite reasonable that its fury could have accounted for the fall of that celebrated people.

This idea suffered a blow in 1987 when Danish scientists studying cores from the Greenland icecap reported evidence that Thera exploded in 1645 B.C., some 150 years before the usual date. That put so much time between the natural disaster and the Minoan decline that the linkage came to be widely doubted, seeming far-fetched at best.

[RightWhale]

How are we able to get past NYT security and view the article without logging in? Is the Devil wearing silver skates today?

[camle]

this is one of the possible origins of Atlantis legend, IIRC.

[null and void]

How are we able to get past NYT security and view the article without logging in? Is the Devil wearing silver skates today?

Go here and see the orignial article, and thread

Debate Erupts Anew: Did Thera's Explosion Doom Minoan Crete?

NYT changed the title...

[11B3]

Still puny in comparison to Yellowstone's prior eruptions.

[RightWhale]

No, I mean I got to read the website without going through NYT security. Have they finally become enlightened like Britannica?

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Absolutely correct- and I have seen some published data that may indicate that Yellowstone is getting ready to surprise us again- if it does, it will make all the natural disasters since the founding of this country seem insignificant.

[null and void]

Ooooohhh?

Kewl!

I'm gonna try!

[RightWhale]

If Yellowstone blows, it will be a golden opportunity. Buy land immediately afterwards. You could own an entire township. In a few years, if you have made a good deal, you will be highly pleased with how the land is coming along.

[Mike Darancette]

- if it does, it will make all the natural disasters since the founding of this country seem insignificant.

Try human history!

[RightWhale]

Yes, at first I didn't know where I was. It was like awakening n Shangri-La. The streets were transparent gold, the curbs were of amethyst and jasper, the walls were opal and jade.

[null and void]

LOL!

I was even able to find an answer to a question I posed on the other thread...

[doc30]

Probably a bad idea. Someone in the government, maybe in the forestry service or the BLM will have all that property rounded up and turned into federally protected lands.

[RightWhale]

Yeah, they would do that. But private enterprise sould succeed if it moves fast. Government will take some time to get paper generated and signed.

[js1138]

doomsday placemarker.

[Tac12]

bigger picture:

http://holmes.acc.virginia.edu/~al2n/turkeece/santorini.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

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[aruanan]

Hey, shouldn't blam be posting this? Ha ha ha.

[blam]

"Hey, shouldn't blam be posting this? Ha ha ha."

I did here

[dirtboy]

if it does, it will make all the natural disasters since the founding of this country seem insignificant.

The ash from Mt. St. Helens was a couple of inches deep a hundred miles away. Geologists have found ash deposits sixty feet deep a hundred miles away from Yellowstone. Throw in all the flood basalts that the Yellowstone hot spot has deposited across the NW United States and you have one very nasty geological system - one that goes off about every 600,000 years (and it's been about that long since the last event). However, human history being what it is, we could easily have 50,000 years until the next event - or five. We just don't know - a supervolcano hasn't erupted in recorded human history, so we don't have a good picture what the warning signs will be.