Re: Ancient Seismic Activity: Gibralter & Sicily

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ramon Barbosa) wrote:

> Can anyone point me to current scientific theory that might lend
> substantiation to the claim that, perhaps over 33,800 years ago,
> violent volcanic activity in the area surrounding the Mediterranean
> Sea might have caused the breaking up of the Gibralter land connection
> to Africa, the consequent submergence of the Sicilian land bridge to
> Africa, the subsequent sinking of the eastern floor of the
> Mediterranean Sea, and the up-thrust of the Mediterranean coast of
> Syria?

Curiously enough, I question your date. Strabo (I think - if you're really
interested I can check) says that in his day there was a stone monument on
the Italian shore overlooking the Straits of Messina commemorating the
separation of Sicily from the mainland. As I doubt that there were
Latin-speaking (or Greek-speaking) humans around 33,800 years ago . . .

Ken Down

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