Thisis good. It gives us a time line for the end of the Ice Age meltitself. What this does infer is that the Ice melted from around12900 BP to 7000 BP or over a span of 6000 years. This also meansthat all shore lines stabilized around 5000 BC and any earliercoastal settlement was inundated sooner or later.
Thebreak though into the Black Sea was a last phase of the melt. Thisappears to have been a catastrophic event although the appropriatewaterfall needs to be located if it has not.
Therest of the sea rise was generally rather slow. This allowed thecoasts to be eroded out of existence to leave no trace. However weknow of at least one to two surges which may well have been strongenough to flood large areas without destroying them. There are alsocomparable subsidence events that are more fruitful. Port royal isa good example.
Wealready knew that this was true. What we now have is the actualcoastline still intact in the Black Sea and plausibly we will locatethe remains of actual towns and ports here also, all of which can beassigned safely to 7000 years ago.
It isalways satisfying to have conjectures fleshed out with a mountain ofevidence.
Noah's biblicalflood actually happened, suggests new evidence
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/noahs-biblical-flood-actually-happened-suggests-evidence-070044699.html
Washington, December11 (ANI): An acclaimed underwater archaeologist believes that he hasfound evidence that the Great Biblical Flood of Noah's time may haveactually happened after all.
Robert Ballard, one ofthe world's best-known underwater archaeologists, told ABC News thathis team is probing the depths of the Black Sea off the coast ofTurkey in search of traces of an ancient civilization hiddenunderwater since the time of Noah.
Ballard said some12,000 years ago, much of the world was covered in ice.
"Where I live inConnecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to theNorth Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. Butthen it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of ourliving history," he explained it to ABC News.
The water from themelting glaciers began to rush toward the world's oceans, Ballardsaid, causing floods all around the world.
"The questionsis, was there a mother of all floods," Ballard said.
According to acontroversial theory proposed by two Columbia University scientists,there really was one in the Black Sea region.
They believe that thenow-salty Black Sea was once an isolated freshwater lake surroundedby farmland, until it was flooded by an enormous wall of water fromthe rising Mediterranean Sea. The force of the water was two hundredtimes that of Niagara Falls, sweeping away everything in its path.
Fascinated by theidea, Ballard and his team decided to investigate.
"We went in thereto look for the flood. Not just a slow moving, advancing rise of sealevel, but a really big flood that then stayed... The land that wentunder stayed under," he said.
Four hundred feetbelow the surface, they unearthed an ancient shoreline, proof toBallard that a catastrophic event did happen in the Black Sea.
By carbon datingshells found along the shoreline, Ballard said he believes they haveestablished a timeline for that catastrophic event, which heestimates happened around 5,000 BC. Some experts believe thiswas around the time when Noah's flood could have occurred.
"It probably wasa bad day. At some magic moment, it broke through and flooded thisplace violently, and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometersof land, went under," Ballard said.
Ballard does not thinkhe will ever find Noah's Ark, but he does think he may find evidenceof a people whose entire world was washed away about 7,000 years ago.
He and his team saidthey plan to return to Turkey next summer. (ANI)
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