Posted by:
Cactus Jim
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Date: March 19, 2014 07:52PM
Check out the map of the Bosporus Strait.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1113865,28.9769746,11z?hl=enIt's not like two seas connected. It looks just like a rather short river. What the claim is now is that at the end of the ice age the sea level rose a few hundred feet. At some point it topped the land that separated the ocean from the area now known as the Black Sea. As the sea water started to flow into the basin it would grow exponentially as erosion deepened it. What would end up with would be an unbelievable rush of water that would continue until the Black Sea basin was filled.
Today there are two currents through the straits. The surface has fresh water pouring out of the Black Sea,which has fresh water at the top. Further down there is a salt water current pouring into the Black Sea as it is still displacing the fresh water.
Presumably, 8,000 years or so ago there were people living in the Black Sea basin farming around the edge of an inland sea. When the ocean burst through the Bosporus Straits, they'd find the water rising and they'd have to move away from the lake. Every day they'd have to move to where there was still land, which makes it hard to keep up with daily chores. So the idea is the stories survivors had after a few centuries of oral embellishment would eventually be the story of the great flood as told in the Epic of Gilgamesh as well as the Old Testament.
At least that's the way I heered it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/2014 08:03PM by Cactus Jim.