Posted on 02/25/2008 2:36:06 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
bflr = bump for later reading
At least these climate scientists are trying to use science to answer a question.
The 45 foot increase in sea level, however, sounds too high for a lake which would have been a small fraction of the total sea surface.
*snicker*
Some other egghead will soon speculate that the great lakes were formed by an object splitting apart upon entry, creating the depressions that were then filled in by water melted by the heat generated in the event.
They’re starting to sound like Monday millennium quarterbacks.
Me too!
Oh, wait....
Rain comes from clouds. Clouds form over bodies of water and swamp land. When there is no water (only snow and ice)upwind from you, there are no clouds.
In the case of deserts moist air rising over mountain ranges cools causing rain and snow to fall and dries the air. There is no moisture left to fall on the downwind side.
Well, 6,000 to 10,000 is quite enough.
Yes, but each day was a thousand years. :-)
At least we got Lake Huron to show for it.
Not that I go there much...
The author has it completely wrong. When a glacier recedes, it simply melts. It does all the gouging when it advances.
It was that squirrel from the Ice Age movies!
Thanks for the clarification. Makes much more sense now...
The curious thing about the Great Flood is that it’s not just a part of the Old Testament. Greco-Roman mythology has a very similar story at about the same time in prehistory, leading me to believe that both stories are different takes on the same historical event: the massive flooding that followed the end of the last great ice age.
Ping to read later
Still waiting for the watters to recede on this one.
waters.
absolutely. Every culture throughout the region has a flood myth. The one in the Epic of Gilgamesh is very similar to the Noah story. Also, there is strong evidence that the Bosporus was formed suddenly.
ping
Not to be too nitpicky, but from what I would expect of glacier dynamics I believe that the Great Lakes, New York’s Finger Lakes, and Lakes Coeur d’Alene and Pend Oreille in northern Idaho were gouged out as the glaciers grew and advanced, not while they were melting in place, a process referred to as “recession,” a term that can misleading suggest an actual reverse movement of the ice mass.
exactly.
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