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Would be great if mining industry kept his hands off this place

• thepangolino 6y ago
  Thank god global warming flooded it 7000 years ago.
  • thombat 6y ago
    During deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 20,000 to 7,000 years ago (20–7 ka), the sea level rose by a total of about 100 m, at times at extremely high rates, due to the rapid melting of the British-Irish Sea, Fennoscandian, Laurentide, Barents-Kara, Patagonian, Innuitian and parts of the Antarctic ice sheets. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise] Setting the sea surface to -100m on https://www.floodmap.net/ https://www.floodmap.net/ shows a very different world: walking dry-shod from Ireland to Helsinki.
    • jakear 6y ago
      Very cool website. I had no idea so much of the ocean was so deep. I’d like to see a chart of sea level vs sea area.
      • positr0n 6y ago
        There's an xkcd what if that made me realize how deep/shallow the oceans are in various places. https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ Bonus - what happens to Mars if you dump all the water there: https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/
• ncmncm 6y ago
  Not seeing huge demand for ochre or limestone these days...
• Joof 6y ago
  I think it'll be okay! ;)