CDR: Re: Noah's Flood

[Jim Choate]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> Evidently, there's oceanographic evidence that the Mediterranean itself was
> dry at one time, with an equivalent event (well of type, it was by
> definition, larger) at Gibraltar, though, it seems to me that it was
> sometime very much closer to the last ice age than the events described in
> today's news.

Actualy it's been dry several times. The Med is in a 'salinity crisis'.
The most recent time the Atlantic broke through at Gibralter there was a
waterfall that was several thousand feet high. The mean level of the Med
is lower even today than the Atlantic with a net flow into the Med.

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