On Dec 27, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Jostein Øksne wrote: > I'd hesitate to call Greenland warm in the bronze age, but surely it > was more inhabitable than it is now.
Grain could be grown there and farmers could be self-sustaining. > In those days, much of the Netherlands were salt marshes. Dykes > constructed since the 17th century has expanded dry land > significantly. Salt marshes are different from being several meters below sea level. I didn't say dry land area was the same. > > Measuring ocean level based on local human structures is a gamble. Is > Venezia sinking, or the ocean rising? :-) In Norway, for example, > slight increases in ocean level are masked by land upheaval; the > continental crust is still bouncing back from the weight of the last > ice sheet. But not in the Caribbean. No one builds stone temples under water. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
