Posted on 04/23/2007 2:29:02 PM PDT by blam
Yes.
Would the picture shown really represent the landscape at the end of an ice age?
I would expect snow and ice, which would then melt, thus flooding the landscape.
Am I missing somthing?
And I'll bet one of the names, as it's come down through history to us, was Atlantis.
The professor is obviously a 'global warming' alarmist and it's really frightening to me to find a person of his academic rank who's so totally ignorant of normal, natural geological and climatological processes. Climate changes constantly, Professor Dipwad! So does terrain as it's sculpted by water and wind erosion, gouged by glaciers and shifted around by tectonics/earthquakes. Humanity's only been on Earth for a quick blink of the Cosmic Eye.
And one could speculate ...
that the reason this huge flat plain existed
was because yet another 10,000 years earlier,
under different climatic conditions,
it was at the bottom of the sea ...
“...protected from pipe laying and wind farms” AND drilling for oil? My husband invented the device that permitted oil recovery from the North Sea and has brought millions of $$$ of income to the British Isles. You know, none of those folks (from 8000 years ago) are alive now and I think that it is safe to drill for the much needed oil!
Archeology is a fascinating topic, but please don’t let the greens take it over.
Very good addition, thanks.
Nope. It had been above water for at least 120,000 years prior...probably longer.
LOL. Nicely done.
Probably. The floor of the North Sea is primarily composed of sedimentary rock consisting of soil ejected into the sea by the many rivers that feed into it. The whole thing is essentially one massive underwater delta where the waters of some of Europes biggest rivers drain. Over millions of years, the sediment created a fairly flat plain. When the water receded, it was exposed.
That’s also why there’s so much oil there. Millions of years worth of plant material has been washed into the sea by those same rivers.
You’re talking about the duration of the ice age itself. The plain was exposed during most or all of the ice age, but it was probably inundated during the preceding interglacial as well. There’s no geologic evidence to indicate any massive uplifting in the area over the past million years or so, making it a fairly safe assumption that the North Sea plain has been at or near its current elevation since the Alpine uplift began tens of millions of years ago. I’ll admit that I haven’t studied that region specifically, but from what I understand it hasn’t been above water permanently for millions of years.
Attention all "global warming" nutburgers!
It's happened before.
It will happen again.
Settled? Of course the issue is settled.
Anthropogenic global warming is the new religion of the truly ignorant and dense. No remedy for that. No amount of money can cure stupidity.
The people down in New Orleans are still struggling with the concept.
I'm wondering if they used rotary bits on their drill strings to find that oil.
Not as much difference as I would have supposed.
Some people probably had to drive their SUV’s to get to drier land as the water level rose.
However, there are those who (for a fee) will gladly usher and collect the offerings..., hmmmhhh, make that TAXES!
And just how many artifacts have been uncovered, and classified proving that the area was once inhabited by hunter gatherers, or any body for that matter? Zero, Zilch, Nada. More manufactured junk science trying to prove were all doomed without big intrusive government.
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