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It always blows my mind that the Black Sea was freshwater until about 7500 ago [1] (5600 BCE). For comparison, the nearby Gobekli Tepe culture was already 3000

It always blows my mind that the Black Sea was freshwater until about 7500 ago [1] (5600 BCE). For comparison, the nearby Gobekli Tepe culture was already 3000 years old [2] (9500 BCE). There must have been many cultures covered over by the Black Sea (which hopefully we can discover with aquatic archaeology in the future!) And, until about 8000 years ago, you could walk from Europe to Britain over Doggerland! (6200 BCE)[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

AustinDev 4y ago
The great flood.
- simonh 4y ago
  There are about as many of those as there are Atlantii.
bcrosby95 4y ago
I find the geological history of California's central valley pretty fascinating, in particular, Lake Corcoran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Corcoran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Corcoran
elihu 4y ago
That's about the same time period when Mount Mazama effectively ceased to exist in a rather dramatic fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama
- kibwen 4y ago
  To entice people to click the link, today this place is known as Crater Lake in Oregon, who formation via the eruption of Mount Mazama was so tremendously earth-shattering that records of the event were passed down via oral history for seven thousand years by the Klamath people.
  - hodgesrm 4y ago
    You can still see the ash layer from the soon-to-be-Crater Lake eruption hundreds of miles away on hillsides and in gullies. [0] It's as much as 8 inches thick in the Okanogan in Washington State. That's 400+ miles away. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazama_Ash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazama_Ash

AustinDev 4y ago

The great flood.

simonh 4y ago
There are about as many of those as there are Atlantii.

bcrosby95 4y ago

I find the geological history of California's central valley pretty fascinating, in particular, Lake Corcoran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Corcoran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Corcoran

elihu 4y ago

That's about the same time period when Mount Mazama effectively ceased to exist in a rather dramatic fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama

kibwen 4y ago
To entice people to click the link, today this place is known as Crater Lake in Oregon, who formation via the eruption of Mount Mazama was so tremendously earth-shattering that records of the event were passed down via oral history for seven thousand years by the Klamath people.
- hodgesrm 4y ago
  You can still see the ash layer from the soon-to-be-Crater Lake eruption hundreds of miles away on hillsides and in gullies. [0] It's as much as 8 inches thick in the Okanogan in Washington State. That's 400+ miles away. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazama_Ash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazama_Ash