[blam]

GGG Ping.

My money is with the geophysists.

[VOA]

My money is with the geophysists.

Agreed.
Even if it makes me sound like an old, empirical fuddy-duddy.

[VR-21]

I've never been to the Agean, but that part of the world and it's history holds endless fascination for me.

I've heard theorizing that the There eruption might account for the biblical plagues that occured at the time of Moses.

[nicollo]

My money's with the Mystique resort next month...

if I kick over a rock while I'm there, will I qualify for a grant?

[gleeaikin]

I have a whole book on the Thera eruption, and they clearly favor the 1646-1626 figures. Apparently it had serious eruptions that scared all the people away and then 2 decades later blew its top.

I know that historians favor 1500 BC because of the decline of the Minoan civilization, but I wonder if that could have been caused by the very major eruption of Etna which took place 1500 BC, +- 50 years. I wish I could find more about that eruption.