Boreal Submerged Black Sea Landscapes

摘要: In 1999 William B. F. Ryan and Walter C. 3rd Pitman suggest in their book: “Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History”, Black Sea, once a much smaller land-locked freshwater lake, was deluged 7,500 years ago with salty water destroying fertile plains around once-shallow lake. For them, this would have happened when sea levels rose beyond Bosporus critical point letting Mediterranean Sea overflowed into basin. this, proposed such catastrophic event is likely to remained collective memory leading creation of story Noah great flood. Since then, vigorous debate arose between researchers region scientific community. As concerns more question flood myths are common many early cultures, most concerned get where they can’t see wood for trees meaning did not consider results obtained from observations collected by series expeditions showing outside cultural concerns, encountered late major level rise during Holocene. Here synthesis on assessment last sea-level presented. Numerous underwater surveys had data which interpretations evidence recent submerged landscapes somewhere around—100 m depth western shelf consistent low stand witnessing emerged at beginning Such important collections bring highlights regarding precise timing amplitude reconnection 9,000 ago.