Giant Tsunami Once Washed Over New York Area

FoxNews ^ | Monday, May 04, 2009

[Joiseydude]

Remember that huge tidal wave cresting over lower Manhattan in the 1998 asteroid-disaster movie "Deep Impact"?

Well, it really may have happened, but long before any skyscrapers were built — around 300 B.C., in fact.

Researchers from Columbia, Harvard and Vanderbilt universities first presented the hypothesis at a geologists' conference in December, and spoke more recently to the BBC.

Vanderbilt's Stephen Goodbred explained that an unusual eight-inch-thick layer of sea sand and gravel 2,300 years old lies along the shorelines and riverbanks of the entire New York metropolitan area.

Such a formation, containing chunks of rock as big as a fist, could only have been caused by a massive influx of sea water far inland — basically, a tsunami.

[cripplecreek]

I suspect NY has experienced many tsunami over the eons.

[Viking2002]

There's a good 'urban renewal' joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Surf’s up.

[stubernx98]

Dagnabit, 2400 years too soon. Probably didn’t do much good in the Washington DC area either.

[ml/nj]

Geologists are so full of it. They're always counting on eons to explain the unexplainable.

ML/NJ

[Repeat Offender]

I heard there was this guy Noah that was there and saw it all.....

[SkyPilot]

I heard there was this guy Noah that was there and saw it all.....

I thought the same thing while reading this article.

[BallyBill]

George Bush hates Dinosaurs.

[Batman11]

Giant Tsunami=Brandon Jacobs! :)

[SunkenCiv]

thanks!

Ancient tsunami ‘hit New York’
bbc | Sunday, 3 May 2009
Posted on 05/03/2009 8:09:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2243522/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks happinesswithoutpeace.

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[Balding_Eagle]

2300 years is eons?

Jesus Christ didn’t walk the earth eons ago. He walked the earth a very measurable time ago, and shortly after this happened. At that time it would seem that the evidence of this would have appeared very fresh.

I thought an eon was something more in the 100,000 or more year range.

[ml/nj]

2300 years is eons?

Figuratively, it is. Geologists (and the Darwin crowd) count on expalining the unexplainable by saying we just havent't been arount long enough to have observed what ever it is they suggest. It gets old.

ML/NJ

[Balding_Eagle]

You’ve lost me, are you saying that when we talk about Christ and say 2,000 years, we are falling into the geologists escape trap somehow and the time fram should be dismissed?

[ml/nj]

The reason you're lost is because you started talking about Jesus. This thread is about what some geologists said.

ML/NJ