Re: Fw: [cybalist] Re: Tyrrhenus (was Easter)

Mark, in reply to Glen's post wrote

> How fast was the rise exactly? Would it honestly have caused such

epidemic distress to somewhat unsettled peoples like the IE

> speakers anyways?
> A 300 foot rise in 2 years. At the height, it was only a few feet a

day. This was not so fast as to not allow people to escape, which
means one has lots and lots of refugees. The largest area of
inundation was in the north. In the South, there is apparently a
destruction horizon in Anatolia which apparently correlates with this
date.

>
> I'd call this epidemic distress.
>
> Think of what a 300 foot rise in the level of the Great Lakes would

do.

Don't forget that on a gently sloping shoreline, a 2 foot rise could
produce a shoreline shift of 2 km inland under water.

Regards

John