At 8:57 PM -0700 on 9/14/00, Tim May wrote:
the Mediterranean inundation was more than 10 million years ago.
Oh, well. Here I thought it was closer than that, historically. I do remember that there were salt pans on the floor of the Med that only could have gotten there if it was dry down there once, but I didn't realize that it was 10 million years ago, which is several times as far back most people could say we were even human... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'