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> what we call the Red Sea today was at time likely an estuary The Red Sea Rift is quite recent [1] in geological time but not 120 kya recent. [1] https://en.
by sradman 6y ago
> what we call the Red Sea today was at time likely an estuary
The Red Sea Rift is quite recent [1] in geological time but not 120 kya recent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_Rift#Spreading_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_Rift#Spreading_model
- danans 6y agoThe phenomenon that would have made it an estuary on the hominid and homo sapiens timescale is lower sea levels due to ice ages. 40% of the Red Sea is only 100 m deep, and during the last major ice age 20kya sea levels were 120 m lower than they are today. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-90-481-2639-2_129#:~:text=The%20Red%20Sea%20proper%20is,is%20shallower%20than%20100%20m https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-9....
- sradman 6y agoMarine Isotope Stage 5 [1] was a high sea level interglacial: > Thus, the present interglacial, the Holocene, is compared with MIS 5 or the interglacials of Marine Isotope Stage 11. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Isotope_Stage_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Isotope_Stage_5