[BenLurkin]

Full article much better than this ragged excerpt job.

[Steely Tom]

That’s the one that created Santorini and deep-sixed Atlantis, right?

[Steely Tom]

Here's a pretty cool video with lots of pics of Santorini, along with other pleasant subject matter:

Ray Obiedo Real life.

[Paladin2]

Maybe someone is hiding the decline?

[texas booster]

“We scanned the entire period across when Thera is known to have happened,” Pearson said, “and we detected a very slight depletion in calcium, right where I saw this lighter ring years ago.”

[ConservativeInPA]

We have tree rings from earlier periods, but we don't know exactly which dates the rings correspond to

I like when scientists are honest. Remember this tidbit when tree rings are used in climate modeling. Note, they don't have ice cores for 99.9999% of the earth either. (Yes, that's six significant digits, if that means anything in science any more.)

[Carriage Hill]

“The team then thought to use a new piece of technology in the lab called the X-ray fluorescence machine to scan the wood for chemical changes.’

Why don’t they scan human and animal bones?

[Fungi]

“Could pin down,” with “could,” a very big word along with “if.” There are no trees 12,000 years old. Premise dismissed.

[SteveH]

Greek volcano mystery: Archaeologist narrows on date of Thera eruption
Date:
September 21, 2022
Source:
Cornell University

science daily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220921113133.htm