flooding the black sea ! Flashcards
when something says 20Ka, what does Ka mean?
thousand years!
sea levels changed on the order of _____ meters over the last 20,000 years due to?
100-120m; ice ages
from lake agassiz flood, largest event raised sea level by?
30cm!
what happened to doggerland?
a land that existed between scandinvia, europe and the uk around the north sea coastline on dogger bank was flooded
what happened to sundaland?
indonesia became dominantly submerged (flooded), the coastline around sunda shelf from sathiamurthy and voris
what happened to beringia?
joining of north america to asia was submerged (flooded), coastline around bering strait
in the novel epic of gilgamesh, what was the myth?
romans and greeks had legend of deucalion and pyrrha, who saved their children and animals by floating away in a giant box
in the hebrew book of genesis, what was the myth?
noah, who found grace in the eyes of the lord, when all around him were wicked. told to build a arc and save 2 of every animal
are there signs of the epic gilgamesh / noah’s flood?
no archeological evidence
no flood deposits
what is the strait of bosporus?
world narrowest strait
uniting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
separating parts of Asian Turkey (Anatolia) from European Turkey.
what was the evidence that sea level was lower in the black sea?
dume fields formed
how much lower was the sea level of the black sea?
110m
what is the best evidence black sea flooded?
strontium isotope curve
what are oxygen isotopes?
the best record of temperature of the sea water
how to correlate oxygen isotopes with depositional temperatures?
if a heavier oxygen is being picked up (O18), that means it must have been hotter, because then there is more energy to pick up O18 by evaporation
