I think blam has a graphic or two about that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2962614/posts?page=35#35
I've lost that lower sea level data.
I would like to see a map of the Med. with that much reduction in water level. I am sure it would show that there were islands not that far from main land at that time."
In their book, Noah's Flood Ryan and Pittman speak about their research near the mouth of the Gibralter and the gouged out areas on the floor that were obviously made by a 'waterfall' of water rushing into the Mediterranean.
I've speculated numerous times that the Mediterranean became blocked at Gibralter during the Ice Age and shrank to a very small size. The islands we know and see today were probably big land masses with many people. When the Ice Age ended and the Gibralter 'plug' broke, the waters in the Mediterranean began to rise sending refugees everywhere.
Everyone in the known world was talking about the rising waters. Noah began to build an ark...he didn't know how much the water would rise or how fast so he decided to build it on a mountain (Ararat) so that he could finish it before the water reached him.
The water in the Mediterannean rose enough that it broke the 'plug' at the Bosporus and flooded 500+ feet down into the Black Sea. The irrigation farmers (the whole area was very dry) around the once 'fresh water' Black Sea evacuated up the river valleys into Europe bringing farming and the Indo-European language with them into Europe. Some of the refugees may have ended up in China as the Tocharians.
Ect.
I've lost that lower sea level data.
I would like to see a map of the Med. with that much reduction in water level. I am sure it would show that there were islands not that far from main land at that time."
In their book, Noah's Flood Ryan and Pittman speak about their research near the mouth of the Gibralter and the gouged out areas on the floor that were obviously made by a 'waterfall' of water rushing into the Mediterranean.
I've speculated numerous times that the Mediterranean became blocked at Gibralter during the Ice Age and shrank to a very small size. The islands we know and see today were probably big land masses with many people. When the Ice Age ended and the Gibralter 'plug' broke, the waters in the Mediterranean began to rise sending refugees everywhere.
Everyone in the known world was talking about the rising waters. Noah began to build an ark...he didn't know how much the water would rise or how fast so he decided to build it on a mountain (Ararat) so that he could finish it before the water reached him.
The water in the Mediterannean rose enough that it broke the 'plug' at the Bosporus and flooded 500+ feet down into the Black Sea. The irrigation farmers (the whole area was very dry) around the once 'fresh water' Black Sea evacuated up the river valleys into Europe bringing farming and the Indo-European language with them into Europe. Some of the refugees may have ended up in China as the Tocharians.
Ect.
BTW, the Mediterannean has completely dried out over 40 times but, the last time was five million years ago.