Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5947
Date: 2001-02-06

On the submergence of the Sunda Shelf:
 
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/geochem/people/mkienast/EPSL%20171.pdf
 
The late up-and-down pulse you mention has nothing to do with the drowning of Sundaland -- otherwise "a similar drop" would have resulted in its reemergence. Most of the shelf lies 30-70 m below the sea at present -- just look at a good map of SE Asia.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes


For the second date, may I quote Oppenheimer (p. 35):
"At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science in 1995 on sea-level changes in the recent geological past,
several participants working in places as widely separated as
Greenland, the North Atlantic and Denmark reported a major event
roughly 8000 years ago. The Danish work suggested 'A rapid sea-level
rise (25 m), then a similar drop centered at 8000 B.P. at 8-15 cm/yr'"
The "Danish work" is in:
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, 1995, 79/10,
p. 1568.