New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption

Determining a reliable calendrical age of the Santorini (Minoan) eruption is necessary to place the impact of the eruption into its proper context within Bronze Age society in the Aegean region. The high-resolution record of the deposition of volcanically produced acids on polar ice sheets, as available in the SO42-time series from ice cores (a direct signal), and the high-resolution record of the climatic impact of past volcanism inferred in tree rings (a secondary signal) have been widely used to assign a 1628/1627 age to the eruption. The layer of ice in the GISP2 (Greenland) ice core corresponding to 1623±36 , which is probably correlative to the 1628/1627 event, not only contains a large volcanic-SO42-spike, but it contains volcanic glass. Composition of this glass does not match the composition of glass from the Santorini eruption, thus severely challenging the 1620s age for the eruption. Similarly, the GISP2 glass does not match the composition of glass from other eruptions (Aniakchak, Mt. St. Helens, Vesuvius) thought to have occurred in the 17th century nor does it match potential Icelandic sources. These findings suggest that an eruption not documented in the geological record is responsible for the many climate-proxy signals in the late 1620s . Although these findings do not unequivocally discount the 1620s age, we recommend that 1628/1627 no longer be held as the "definitive" age for the Santorini eruption.

Rohl’s fine where he agrees with Velikovsky (the New Chronology grew out of the SIS Glasgow chronology, which fell apart; Peter James et al “Centuries of Darkness” chronology has the same source), beyond that, not so much. :’)

http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/joseph.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/hammurabi.html

The New Chronology topic was an oldie, been deleted, but should still show up in the Wayback Machine:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3740e8e50733.htm

The later one is still up:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/725672/posts

Here’s the Wayback version of Rohl’s old website:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010821070955/http%3A//www.nunki.net/isis/isisconf2001wrapper.htm

Rohl was also in a prog-rock band in the 1970s, and a quick search should turn him up on MySpace, Facebook, or somewhere else on the web. Also, Cami McGraw is (or maybe was) running a New Chronology group over on Yahoo, good discussions (also a lot of dead-ends) over there.

Here are some other relevant ones:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2536818/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2483502/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1774343/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1181802/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2462926/posts

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