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To: blam
Fascinating. Anyone catch the Discovery Channel (I think) program on mega-tsunamis the other day? They mentioned a distaster of just this sort on the coast of India.
44 posted on 12/04/2003 4:08:02 PM PST by B Knotts (Go 'Nucks!)
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To: B Knotts
"Fascinating. Anyone catch the Discovery Channel (I think) program on mega-tsunamis the other day? They mentioned a distaster of just this sort on the coast of India."

Yup. I saw that for the second time.

I read an interesting article sometime back that speculates about the prehistoric South Americans making moves from the coastal areas to inland regions just to get away from tsunamis. I may have something in the GGG files on this, I'll go look. (something about meteorite impacts in the Pacific Ocean)

BTW, just read last night that meteorite impacts into water causes the climate to get warm and wet while those on land causes cold and dry conditions.

46 posted on 12/04/2003 4:54:14 PM PST by blam
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To: B Knotts
Found it. Go to post #36 on the thread linked below and read it.

Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around The Year 1178AD

47 posted on 12/04/2003 5:02:05 PM PST by blam
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To: B Knotts; RightWhale
I found something that may have caused a 400 foot tidal wave. This is from a book I'm presently reading.

"Alexander and Edith Tollmann, geologists at the University of Virginia, have argued that a series of large ocean impacts, coupled with smaller land collisions, in the middle of the eighth millennium BC is the cause of Noah's Flood... Greenland ice-core data and tree-rings show that something major did happen right at the time the Tollmanns propose. A very strong acid layer has been dated to 7630BC (+-170 years)"

They go on to propose: "...the Tollmanns argue that a comet with seven large fragments struck the world's oceans more or less simultaneously in the Tasman Sea southeast of Australia, in the South China Sea, in the west-central Indian Ocean, in the North Atlantic, in the central Atlantic south of the Azores, in the Pacific off Central America, and farther south in the Pacific just west of Tierra del Fuego. The impacts set up giant tsunamis...."

Looks like this could be a possible source of a giant tsunami in the correct time frame, huh.

49 posted on 12/04/2003 6:00:50 PM PST by blam
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