Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed

University Rhode Island ^ | 8-23-2006 | Todd McLeish

[blam]

The Fireworks for the Exodus.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Parley Baer]

The end of Atlantis?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

One big bang!

[yield 2 the right]

Exodus Decoded - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Exodus Decoded History Channel

[Bean Counter]

Just Mother Nature's way of adjusting for global warming...

[Fraxinus]

Thera has erupted numerous times over the last 400,000 years, four of which were of such magnitude that the island collapsed and craters were formed.

Does this mean that some of the previous eruptions were even more explosive than the last major eruption?

[SunkenCiv]

I'll ping (among other things ;') when I get home.

[Minn]

Santorini is a strange place. You get off the ship and drive up switchbacks to the top of a high cliff. Then you drive on what seems to be a perfectly level road to the other side of the island, where you run into a beach. IT has to be some sort of illusion, but it seems like the ocean is at different levels on different sides of the island. Like all Greek islands, it’s close to paradise for travelers.

[SunkenCiv]

The stuff just looked for and found on the sea floor would date to those large prehistoric and very ancient massive eruptions. I think the caldera seen today formed in an eruption over 100,000 years ago. There isn't any evidence for an eruption in historical times (and by historical, I include the Minoan/Mycenaean use of Linear A and Linear B, and cuneiform users in Anatolia) until circa 200 BC.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

I'm goin' to bed...

New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 1998, Pages 279-289 | 13 July 1997 | Gregory A. Zielinski, Mark S. Germani
Posted on 07/29/2004 3:25:45 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1180724/posts

[nopardons]

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[SunkenCiv]

Sounds great!

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[JohnBovenmyer]

Santorini was such a massive event that even across 3500 years some kind of partial historical record nearly has to remain of it, not just the almost certainly linked Atlantis legend. At the time it had to be considered a divine act. The theory that it should STILL be considered one is fascinating. The odd thing to me is the parallel non-barking dog story of Tambora. How is it that an event nearly twice as large less than 200 years ago has generated so little interest? The biggest volcanic eruption in history is a historical nonevent. The nearby, over-hyped, much smaller, Krakatoa eruption 78 years later has generated much more interest then and to this day.

[Quix]

I am quite skeptical that it was the fireworks for the Exodus . . .

Sometimes God uses natural phenomena and features. Sometimes He doesn't. I think the Exodus was super special to Him and that much of the time, He used other than natural stuff.

imho, of course.

I'm not the least bit impressed with the Nat Geo special on the topic.

[Quix]

The History Channel . . . hmmm. Does Nat Geo have one, too? Or was I merely confusing the two sources?

[Quix]

Ahhhh. Thanks.

[[BTW, I had you down as a tentative on the UFO ping list. Went ahead and put you in. If you want off it, please let me know. Oh, and, have you noticed an increased . . . something . . . in such programs on TV recently? They seem to be paying persistent attention to the volcano in Mexico]]

[Berosus]

Last year I became a believer in the theory that a natural disaster in 535 A.D. caused the Dark Ages. For me the clincher came when I read a book on the Mayans that was too old for the authors to know anything about the theory, and they reported that the city of Tikal left NO historical records between the years 534 and 593. The most likely culprit for the disaster is a Southeast Asian volcano like Krakatoa or Tambora; any idea how much ash and rock it would have sent into the atmosphere?

There's also a theory that Mt. Toba, a really big volcano on Sumatra, erupted during the ice age, and the resulting "nuclear winter" killed off everyone, except for a few thousand Neanderthals. I don't know about that, but if Mt. Toba blows in our lifetime, it's safe to say that we'll never have to worry about global warming again!