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The Flood again, but this post says that it lasted for 40 years (40 days) ,
so maybe that is what we need to be preparing for..Yikes..
Peter
EVIDENCE OF GREAT FLOOD FOUND OFF TURKEY
Copyright � 1999 Nando Media Copyright � 1999 Associated Press
WASHINGTON (November 19, 1999 4:52 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The
man who tracked down the Titanic and other undersea mysteries has found
evidence that the Black Sea was inundated in a giant flood about 7,000 years
ago - perhaps the biblical flood of Noah.
Explorer Robert Ballard reported this week that he was looking for ancient
shipwrecks off the north coast of Turkey last summer and decided to check
out the flood theory.
Columbia University researchers William Ryan and Walter Pittman have
speculated that when the European glaciers melted, the Mediterranean Sea
overflowed into what was then a smaller freshwater lake to create the
current Black Sea.
Many ancient Middle Eastern cultures have legends of a great flood,
including the Bible story of Noah.
Ballard used side-scan sonar, similar to that used to locate the undersea
wreck of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane, to study the floor of the Black Sea.
He found, well out to sea, an ancient coastline and a change from freshwater
to saltwater mollusks dating from about 7,000 years ago.
But considering the flow of water through the narrow channel now known as
the Bosporus, Ballard told the National Geographic Society: "The flood
wasn't over in 40 days. ... The whole event probably lasted about 40 years."
People living on flat areas near the lake would have faced a sea widening by
a mile a day. Along cliffs water rose about six inches a day, he said.
In the area studied by Ballard, along the southern coast of the Black Sea,
the waters would have risen gradually, he said, which preserved contours of
the original beach.
Ballard scooped up a bucket of shells from the ancient shoreline - now 550
feet below the sea's surface - and sent them to the Academy of Natural
Sciences in Philadelphia for analysis.
The shells included both extinct freshwater mollusks, presumably from before
the flood, and saltwater mollusks from the postflood era.
The shells were then radiocarbon-dated at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution in Massachusetts. The most recent date for the freshwater shells
was about 7,460 years ago, while the oldest saltwater shells dated to 6,820
years ago. That indicates a change about 7,000 years in the past.
Ballard plans to return to the Black Sea next August to search for ancient
merchant vessels and more clues about the ancient flood.
"We'd like to find some evidence of human habitation: stone walls, pottery,
hearths," he told National Geographic, a sponsor of his work.
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