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Posted on 08/17/2013 3:47:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago.
The flood occurred when Atlantic waters found their way into the cut-off and desiccated Mediterranean basin.
The researchers say that a 200km channel across the Gibraltar strait was carved out by the floodwaters... show that the resulting flood could have filled the basin within two years.
The team was led by Daniel Garcia-Castellanos from the Research Council of Spain (CSIC)...
Using existing borehole and seismic data, his team showed how the flood would have begun with water spilling over a sill.
The water would have gradually eroded a channel into the strait, eventually triggering a catastrophic flood, Dr Garcia-Castellanos explained.
He and his colleagues created a computer model to estimate the duration of the flood, and found that, when the "incision channel" reached a critical depth, the water flow sped up.
In a period ranging from a few months to two years, the scientists say that 90% of the water was transferred into the basin.
"This extremely abrupt flood may have involved peak rates of sea level rise in the Mediterranean of more than 10m per day," he and his colleagues wrote in the Nature paper.
Previous estimates of the duration of the flood were very variable, said Dr Garcia-Castellanos, because scientists "had to assume the size of the channel" rather than measure it...
Dr Govers said the next important step would be to measure the volume of breccia, or ancient eroded material, in the strait, to confirm whether there was enough material there to have filled the flood channel.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Well it is but if you flush NYC we will have another in the Atlantic and just kinda get it in the Azores current and it ships itself to the other side right handy to get in the Med.
I thought that was “The Golden Torc”?
And THEY would be the aforementioned garbage?
Cosmic Impact Site That Created Earth’s Axial Tilt and Fault Lines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2639823/posts
As the Atlantic poured into the Med, it lowered worldwide sealevels a tad, because the oceans are linked.
When the Russians were checking the bedrock prior to the Aswan High Dam construction, they found that the Nile was atop a silted-in canyon, the date of which is (ta-da!) the same as the period of time that the Med was much lower and not connected to the Atlantic.
They built the dam anyway. ;’)
My pleasure.
maybe Atlantis was in the mediterannean!
Only partly right. Here’s what happened:
http://www.threeimpacts-twoevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Geologic-Sensemaking-Simultaneous-Impacts-10May2013.pdf
Bottom line: the simultaneous impacts of two massive, eastward traveling objects configured Earth’s landforms and instilled its obliquity.
The Mediterranean Was A Desert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1041705/posts
Mediterranean Sea Dried Up Five Million Years Ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2184604/posts
Colossal Flood Created the Mediterranean Sea
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2403954/posts
Colossal Flood Created the Mediterranean Sea
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2425936/posts
and
Ancient Ice Melt Unearthed in Antarctic Mud: 20-Meter Sea Level Rise, Five Million Years Ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3046073/posts
Do you have any new URLs for the now dead links for the pics above?
OK. It would be a gigantic effort to fix all dead links. Do you know of a way to automatically retrieve such things from the waybackmachine?
Of course the archive would have had to capture it to begin with, and I know that can be iffy. But if you do know, maybe you could let us know and save it near the top of your FR library.
I've often thought it would be nice to have an image-parking service similar to the WB, that would be an option to automatically reroute graphics link to it, so that image links would never go dead. The other rather bandwidth-hogging option is to scale down the graphic and convert it to 1x1 table elements, thus making it use no graphic link at all. But otherwise, no.
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