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Sea Level Was Higher During The Medieval Warm Period
Real Science ^ | 6-18-2015 | stevengoddard

Posted on 06/20/2015 2:20:29 PM PDT by rottndog

The Norman castle at Pevensey Bay is one of the most historic sites in Britain. It is built inside of a Roman wall, and was William the Conqueror’s headquarters. It was also used as a defense outpost by Brits and Americans in WWII

It is currently several miles from the sea, but at the time when the Romans and Normans built the structures, the water lapped right up to the edge of the stone. The map below shows the bay 900 years ago, and the current seashore as a dashed line.


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To: Born to Conserve

Lol...it is actually part of our local lore. Reports of sightings of large land bound shipwrecks.


21 posted on 06/20/2015 3:58:48 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob; R_Kangel
"I’ve read legends of Spanish ships being sighted in Death Valley"

When they recover one and take pictures and date the wood, let me know.

Of course I could imagine the Gulf of California reaching up through the Mojave into the Great Basin, I believe it's been millions of years ago.

22 posted on 06/20/2015 4:11:58 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: rottndog

It could be several factors in play. The area of the Cinq Portes are now away from the sea edge due primarily silting in the original ports.


23 posted on 06/20/2015 4:22:11 PM PDT by centurion316 (ze)
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To: rottndog
Rotterdam's flatulent, flying Holsteins have a secret: farting cows photo: Cows trampolines.gif
24 posted on 06/20/2015 4:43:20 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: R_Kangel

“Aparently The Salton Sea was once part of an inland water network. It was called Lake Cahuilla by Native Americans.”

“Lake Cahuilla was created when the lower Colorado River shifted its course within its delta. Instead of flowing directly south to the head of the Gulf of California, the river’s waters were diverted northwest into the Salton Basin, the base of which lay about 80-metre (260 ft) below sea level.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla

“The modern sea was accidentally created by the engineers of the California Development Company in 1905. In an effort to increase water flow into the area for farming, irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado River into the valley. Due to fears of silt buildup, a cut was made in the bank of the Colorado River to further increase the water flow. The resulting outflow overwhelmed the engineered canal, and the river flowed into the Salton Basin for two years, filling the historic dry lake bed and creating the modern sea, before repairs were completed.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea

Neither had anything to do with climate or sea levels. Neither does the subject of this silly article:

“Since Roman times, silting and land reclamation in the Pevensey Levels have pushed the coastline out by about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi), leaving the castle landlocked.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pevensey_Castle


25 posted on 06/20/2015 4:50:43 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: rottndog

26 posted on 06/20/2015 5:09:15 PM PDT by recumbentibus
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To: rottndog

DUH Don’t forget Alaska was connect to Russia LOL!


27 posted on 06/20/2015 5:13:52 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: rottndog
One of the great seafaring cities of Medieval Europe was Pisa.

NOTE: Pisa is no longer on the coast. It's 6 miles inland today.

28 posted on 06/20/2015 5:26:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: rottndog
If you travel west out of Honolulu, far west, you reach the Farrington Highway. It ultimately travels north, and doesn't quite meet the North end of Oahu. So, you can't quite drive all the way around the perimeter of the island. It's a spectacular road. It follows cliffs and sea coasts, and if you walk at the end, you can see a scary view of ocean waves blowing up through the volcanic fissures in the rocks, and a washed out path that I was afraid of following.

There is also a cave along the inland side of the highway. It's far above the ocean, dozens of feet. It contains a plaque describing it's formation. It formed when the ocean waves eroded a hole in the volcanic rock. That's right. The ocean level was a hundred feet, or so, HIGHER than it is now. This was during the LAST warm period. There weren't any SUVs then.

29 posted on 06/20/2015 5:46:06 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: rottndog
...900 years ago...and then about 600 years ago we slid into the Little Ice Age, from which we're only now recovering....
30 posted on 06/20/2015 6:01:32 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Mr Rogers
.... Apparently the lake was substancially above sea level at it's greatest size. I just Googled the name "Lake Cahuilla" and it does elude to a change in climate ..... through the disappearance of the lake due to evaporation and possible other causes. I came up with the following info:

......The shoreline of the old Lake Cahuilla is still visible at the base of the surrounding mountains. It averaged about 40 feet above sea level, but varied from 25 to 50 feet elevation. The variability of elevation is thought to be due to subsidence of the basin floor.

...... Radiocarbon age-dating of charcoal and fish bones found interstratified in the lagoonal silts behind gravel bars suggests that the lake existed since before the year 1200. Further evidence discloses that about 900 years ago, while Lake Cahuilla was a young, vigorous freshwater lake, the Cahuilla Indians, generally thought to be connected to the Aztecs by language, appeared from the northeast.

..... With the first Spanish explorations in the 16th century, they found no lake in the Salton Basin. This suggests that Lake Cahuilla had evaporated completely by 1600, or about 400 years ago. Yet, these early Spanish records allude to Indian legends of the existence of a large body of water to the west. The Indians now living in the Coachella Valley have distinct legends to the effect that at some time in the past the valley was occupied by a large body of water.

31 posted on 06/20/2015 7:21:14 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Mariner

I imagine I’m gonna need a lot more tequila before they start showing up.
: )


32 posted on 06/20/2015 8:52:27 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: rottndog

bmk


33 posted on 06/21/2015 3:47:50 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...I'm)
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To: rottndog

Facts don’t matter to the “climate-change” alarmists.


34 posted on 06/21/2015 3:49:25 AM PDT by windsorknot
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