From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 15:25:27 EST
I have pointed this out before but some weren't here to see it. Even the
'catastrophic' rate of infill isn't very catastrophic.
(Ryan et al, Marine Geology 138:119-126). The water rose 400 feet in a year.
Given the slope of the southern Black sea bed, it means that the people had
to
before you would have to swim. There are no mountains being covered, and
the
shoreline was not out of sight--ever. I would have thought that such a Black
Sea
infilling would have been labeled the long march rather than the great
flood.
The slope of the Black Sea bed is such that 400 feet in a year means that
people have to move about 3 houses down the block each day for a year. That
is hardly the stuff of legend.
glenn
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Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:48 PM
To: bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com; asa@calvin.edu;
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Subject: Re: Noah not in the Black Sea
In a message dated 12/10/02 12:57:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com writes:
Some time ago, I posted a couple of notes about an article in GSA Today
that called into question the Black Sea flood idea, popularized
by Ryan and Pitman. The latest GSA Today has a note in which the
authors cite additional papers, of which they were unaware at the
time of writing, which support their gradual flooding model for the
Black Sea.
Thanks, an abrupt flood would fill the bill but a gradual flood might only
serve to induce mass migrations. It's a shame Ryan and Pitman's PBS
documentary on the issue is already obsolete.
Do you have any information on the suggestion that the story of the flood
comes from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh?
rich
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