I’d like to know how an entire city came to be inundated like this. Obviously the sea level rose, but how? Sport Utility Chariots belching CO2?
From everything I’ve been able to find so far, sea levels have been pretty stable over the last 3000 years, and around 500 AD especially. There have been some periods of slight rises, but nothing to put a city underwater as seen in the photos @ the link. I’d guess at subsidence during a large seismic event. The Mediterranean region is very active...
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/the-dynamic-earth/anatolian-history/#page=1
I was thinking the opposite. If the Mongolian plate is rising, wouldn’t another have to sink? Or would that take millions of years? I want another continent to rise with Hawaii at the center. What would that do?
Earthquake, maybe, with a severe drop in elevation?
I’ve read that periodically sections of the Egyptian coastline slide into the Mediterranean. Earthquakes.
LOL. I was thinking about that too. Maybe due to methane gas produced by oxen used to pull carts? I know cows produce methane gas, because a US government grant was used to study how much gas was in a cow patty.LOL