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Published: 2018-06-01 07:19:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 10156; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 215
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This map shows how the terrain may have appeared during the Last Glacial Maximum, around 21,000 years ago, when sea levels were approximately 125 meters (410 feet) below present. This map does not include any lakes of this time period. The colouring of the map is based on height, and is not meant to represent the climate or vegetation. This map also does not account for any geological or tectonic changes in the landscape since this time period, as the map was made using a modern terrain map with a lowered sea level to simulate an approximate representation of the ice age coastlines.Β
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A great map.
Makes me wonder: Was the red sea once filled with fresh water?
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Thanks!
Probably not, at that point in time there was still a channel connecting it to the Indian Ocean. There's not a lot of fresh water draining into it from the surrounding deserts, so that combined with high evaporation rates makes it one of the saltiest seas in the world.
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Isn't the time that barrier broke through a 'disputed issue ' and one of the possible explanations ( beside the black sea breakthrough ) of the "Great Flood "legends ??Β Β It is known from archaeology that that the Sahara and HijazΒ have been drying since the last iceage ..Β as one could pass it on horseback inΒ Β Roman times and even during the Muslim expansion into north Africa .. that would have meant more sweet water entering the red sea basin ..Β The black sea was layered in that time ( pretty much as it is now , but with even sweeter water at the top layer )Β the same could have been the case with the red seaΒ until the breakthrough started adding more salt into the system ..Β
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Something I've always wondered is this: mankind was clearly around during the Ice Age, and given how humans have a well-documented tendency to colonize virtually anywhere there's land, that means that there have to have been people who lived on what is now the seabed.
I keep wondering: what sort of things are down there? There has to be some sort of archaeological find down there, lost to us by the flooding.
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That's a good question.
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