Mediterranean megaflood confirmed

Cosmos ^ | March 26, 2018 | Andrew Masterson

[Windflier]

Aussie land, where this magazine is published.

Fair dinkum.

[bert]

----Flood narratives are common in Western literature---

The source of the narratives......

Marine fossils miles and miles away and hundreds of feet above any ocean

[Oatka]

Thanks for the links.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...Call me a backwards 'murican, but I hate the metrification of the language...

There are 2 types of countries: Those that have been to the moon, and those that use metric.

[Windflier]

There are 2 types of countries: Those that have been to the moon, and those that use metric.

Ha! I love it.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[ApplegateRanch]

>>There are 2 types of countries: Those that have been to the moon, and those that use metric. <<

And Hubble Trouble is what happens when the two mix, instead of convert.

[blam]

"Thanks! I think that’s new to me!"

Me too.

Zanclean Flood

[Fred Nerks]

One of hundreds of Flood stories, and as is to be expected, the muzzies are victims and have it backwards:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

Turkey

Iskender-Iulcarni (Alexander the Great), in the course of his conquests, demanded tribute from Katife, Queen of Smyrna. She refused insultingly and threatened to drown the king if he persisted. Enraged at her insolence, the conqueror determined to punish the queen by drowning her in a great flood. He employed Moslem and infidel workmen to make a strait of the Bosphorus, paying the infidel workmen one-fifth as much as the Moslems got. When the canal was nearly completed, he reversed the pay arrangements, giving the Moslems only one-fifth as much as the infidels. The Moslems quit in disgust and left the infidels to finish the canal. The Black Sea swept away the last dike and drowned the workmen. The flood spread over Queen Katife’s country (drowning her) and several cities in Africa. The whole world would have been engulfed, but Iskender-Iulcarni was prevailed upon to open the Strait of Gibraltar, letting the Mediterranean escape into the ocean. Evidence of the flood can still be seen in the form of drowned cities on the coast of Africa and ship moorings high above the coast of the Black Sea. [Gaster, pp. 91-92]

[gleeaikin]

The Med. has dried up a number of times and been reflooded. This 5 million year old flood was certainly a major one as reading blam’s link on the Zantean flood points out. It also probably had an impact on north Africa and this was the time when the first hominids were evolving and have been discovered. Another major climate event was the closing of the straits of Panama about 3 million years ago which would have had a significant impact on things like the Gulf Stream, although that could also have begun quite a bit earlier as the gap shrank.

[blam]

All interesting stuff.

I've speculated that the Gulf Of Mexico may have been isolated at some point during the last Ice Age too. Just a thought that I never followed up on.