Re: Yet another ... Black ... well.

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:04:35 -0800 (PST), in sci.archaeology, Day Brown
wrote:

There seems to be some cherry picking of the data to conform to
preconceived ideas, which from the Levantine scriptures, and their
influence on western culture, is understandable.

Day Brown thinks that all archaeology is heavily influenced by Christian
ideology.
Mind you, he should know about cherry picking.

I dont see where anyone presented us with a topographical sequence of
maps showing the effect of uplift and subsidence which still goes on.
We saw, in recent times how a resort on the Sea of Marmara sank two
meters in a single earthquake. I dont see any reliable data on what
the elevation of the Bosporus sill was in early times.

I do, however, see the wide river valleys of the Danube, Dneipr, Bug,
& Don as they enter the Black sea, and I see as well the narrow fairly
straight channel of the Bosporus. So, I have to wonder, why- if it was
draining *all* these rivers all this time, that channel was not also
eroded, and why the channel does not meander as all of the other do.

Ryan & Pitman say the Euxine lake formerly drained out the Sakarya
valley. which is, like the great rivers that empty into the basin,
very wide. In fact, far wider than one would expect from the
relatively trivial stream which now dumps into the Black Sea. And, my
topo also shows, some 30 miles south of the Black Sea coast, another
wide gently sloped valley leading down to the Sea of Marmara from the
current Sakarya valley, that, however, has no river in it to carve out
that wide valley at all. Why is that there?

Does anyone have a link to a set of the topo maps from the area in the
era in question? Telling us where the Bosporus sill is now, does not
say much about where it was then.
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