Dating A Massive Undersea Slide (8,100 Year Ago)

Science News ^ | 1-5-2006 | Sid Perkins

[blam]

I think this is about the same area and time that what is believed to have been the largest earthquake ever occurred.

Weight redistribution from the Ice Age melt probably caused both.

[TheRobb7]

"Dating a massive undersea slide"

Reminds me of a blind date 20 years ago...........

[expatpat]

Where did the earthquake occur?

[RightWhale]

Crustal rebound. The same thing will save us when Antarctica and Greenland lose their icecaps.

[rwgal]

Not to be a fatalist, but when it happens again, and it will, the world will be "surprised" ...mother nature has a way of doing things her way....

Meadow Muffin

[Coyoteman]

Interesting post, Blam.

Thanks.

[geopyg]

Moss underneath and everything?

[blam]

Catastrophism Ping.

Study Sees North Sea Tsunami Risk

It was a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. An earthquake shook Norway's coast between Bergen and Trondheim about 8,150 years ago. The tremors ripped pieces of land the size of Iceland from shallow water and sent them crashing into the deep sea. Like a stone thrown into a pond, the landslide produced ripples of waves that spread at the speed of a train -- powerful tsunamis racing across the North Sea. Along the beaches of Scotland the waves were up to six meters (20 feet) high. Geologists have discovered a ravaged Stone-Age site there.

[TheRobb7]

"Moss underneath and everything?"

How did you know her last name???

[blam]

"Where did the earthquake occur?"

See post #8. I think that may be it. Apparently the land is still 'rippled' in Norway from the quake I mentioned.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Reminds me of a blind date...

You dated her too, huh?????

*LOL*!

[Publius6961]

Along the beaches of Scotland the waves were up to six meters (20 feet) high. Geologists have discovered a ravaged Stone-Age site there.

Shouldn't evidence of that tsunami still be present in modern England and Scotland?
Has erosion altered the landscape that much in 8100 years to erase all evidence of deposits?

[Dad yer funny]

bookmark ping-a-ling , & THANKS blam

[blam]

"Shouldn't evidence of that tsunami still be present in modern England and Scotland?"

I've read that there is still evidence...I just can't find where I read it.

[TheRobb7]

Although we are in serious danger of hijacking this thread, I'll only say that I am having memories of that parody song:

Round, round, big and round
she's big and round

(beach boys riff)

[Young Werther]

Fifteen posts and no "Bush's Fault!"

Coulda been an SUV induced global warming event or a meteor strike or ....

[GoldCountryRedneck]

....danger of hijacking this thread....

Naw. See, on the Internet they always send ya' ancient history pictures ....

You know...from eons ago when their land masses were at least a 100 lbs lighter!!!

That return it???????

[Redleg Duke]

Bush's fault! Halliburton did it under orders from Cheney!

[wizr]

Redd Foxx once said that his 300 lb. wife thought he loved her, 'cause every time she got into bed, he rolled toward her.

It was a joke.

[blam]

LOL. I liked Redd Foxx and Lamont.