To: SunkenCiv
The dwelling site lies 11 meters over sea level today, but was at the water's edge 5,500 years ago. Nah, couldn't be. They must be mistaken.
To: T. P. Pole
THe entire “North” is rising to this day. The weight of miles deep glacial ice load, now gone, pushed down. The resulting rising is called “rebound”.
17 posted on
10/04/2010 6:51:51 PM PDT by
TaMoDee
To: T. P. Pole
The dwelling site lies 11 meters over sea level today, but was at the water's edge 5,500 years ago. Nah, couldn't be. They must be mistaken.
Actually, most of that 11 meters is due to glacial rebound.
The weight of the ice pushes down the land mass and when the ice is gone, it slowly rises (as it is still doing today). The tops of the fjords in Scandinavia were not too long ago at sea level.
18 posted on
10/04/2010 6:55:08 PM PDT by
seowulf
("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
To: T. P. Pole
What, you scoff at levitation? ;’)
20 posted on
10/04/2010 7:00:21 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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