Re: Controversy over the great flood hypotheses in the Black Sea in light of geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence

Author: Paul H.

Subject: Black Sea and Noah\'s Flood Revisited and Reviewed
Link: http://www.hallofmaat.com/read.php?1,422991,422991#msg-422991

In the "In Press" section of "Quaternary International", I found
an article, which is in press, and currently available only as a
preprint in PDF format. The article is:

Yanko-Hombacha, V., A. S. Gilbertb, and P. Dolukhanovc, in
press, Controversy over the great flood hypotheses in the Black
Sea in geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence.
Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.08.004

They did an extensive review of two different scenarios, which
have been proposed for Noah's Flood having occurred in the
Black Sea. The scenarios, which they reviewed were (1) an
Early Holocene event caused by catastrophic Mediterranean
inflow at either 7,200 or 8,400 BP and "(2) a Late Pleistocene
event brought on by Caspian influx between 16,000 and 13,000
BP". The 7,200 BP event was originally proposed by Ryan et al.
(1997), a paper published in "Marine Geology". This date was
later revised to 8,400 BP by Ryan et al. (2003), a paper
published in "Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science".
The 13,000 to 16,000 BP event was proposed by Tchepalyga
(2003) in a Geological Society of America talk.

After a very, very detailed review of both geological and
archaeological data and research related to both hypotheses,
they found:

1."These data indicate no major drawdown of the Black Sea
after the Younger Dryas, and they do not provide evidence
for any catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea in the Early
Holocene."

2. The Late Pleistocene, 13,000 - 16,000 BP innudation of the
Black Sea "was intense and substantial whereas the Early
Holocene sea-level rise was not."

and 3. archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence revealed
no recognizable changes in population dynamics between 14,000
and 6,000 BP that could be linked to a catastrophic flood.

An online abstract related to the above inpress paper is "Late
Quaternary history of the Black Sea: an overview with respect
to the Flood Hypotheses" by V. Yanko-Hombach, A. S.
Gilbert, and P. Dolukanov (Geophysical Research Abstracts,
Vol. 8, 00359) at
http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU06/00359/EGU06-A-00359.pdf?PHPSESSID=cab82f16f37cc1997b47939b1a075997

Undoubtedly, once published there will be some comments
and replies to this article.

References Cited:

Tchepalyga, A., 2003. Late glacial Great Flood in the Black
Sea and Caspian Sea. Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Program. vol. 35, no. 6, p. 460,
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_63243.htm

Ryan, W. B. F., W. C. Pitman III, C. O. Major, K. Shimkus, V.
Moskalenko, G. A. Jones, G. N. P. Dimitrov, M. Sak?nc, and
H. Yuce, 1997, An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf.
Marine Geology. vol. 138, pp. 119-126.

Ryan, W. B. F., C. O. Major, G. Lericolais, and S. L.
Goldstein, 2003, Catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea.
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science. vol. 31,
pp. 525-554.

Yours,

Paul H.
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