Re: Ancient Seismic Activity: Gibralter & Sicily

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:03:35 BST, Ken Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>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 . . .

Your response has sent me hunting and I found
http://82.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GE/GEOLOGY.htm which has some
interesting sections on the beliefs of the ancients.



Eric Stevens