Some Non-Biblical, Non-Flood, Archaeology....

[Guest]

The why has the sea level not risen since at least 1500 B.C.?

[Essan]

The why has the sea level not risen since at least 1500 B.C.?

Once the main ice sheet had melted there was no further significant change in sea levels. Though of course small changes are always underway - sea levels fell during the Little Ice Age as more water was locked up in arctic ice and in glaciers, it's rising again now as those glacier melt.

[Guest]

You say that "when the main ice sheet melted there was no further significant change in sea level," and you said previously that most of the ice sheet melted between 14000 B.C. and 9,500 B.C., so how could megalithic cities from 3000 B.C. have been submerged because of that melt, you have 6,000 years for the meltwater from the ice sheets to reach the ocean, how can this be?

[stan]

There are submeged megalithic ruins off the southern coast of Spain near Gibraltar at Tarifa, Chipiona, Rota, and Huelva, so if Neanderthal villages were submerged when the Ice Age ended, then those megalithic ruins went under at the same time, and what date do you ascribe to this?

This is the first I've heard of these places. Are they for real?

[Minimalist]

I'm sure the simple-minded would prefer to hear that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights but, in the real world, things tend to be a bit more complex.

http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/~ ... rentian%22

The deglaciation of the North American continent
produced large fluxes of meltwater and icebergs into the
adjacent ocean basins, often in the form of abrupt
catastrophic events. These events are believed to have
significantly influenced the thermohaline circulation of the
oceans and therefore northern hemispheric climate. This
inference derives in large part from consideration of the
two most significant millennial-scale climatic variations
that occurred during the deglacial period. The Bolling–Allerod
(B–A) warm interval and the subsequent Younger
Dryas (YD) cold interval both persisted over periods of
order 1 ka and were characterized by fast onsets and
terminations.

11,000 years Before Present seems to fit the Younger Dryas...oddly close to Hancock's oft-repeated 10,500 BC.

In any case, it was melting glacial ice not a pissed-off diety making it rain.

[Essan]

You say that "when the main ice sheet melted there was no further significant change in sea level," and you said previously that most of the ice sheet melted between 14000 B.C. and 9,500 B.C., so how could megalithic cities from 3000 B.C. have been submerged because of that melt, you have 6,000 years for the meltwater from the ice sheets to reach the ocean, how can this be?

No, I said the melting started around 14,000BC and that the ice age officially ended around 9,500BC - however it took several thousand more years for the ice to melt completely. Indeed - as we all know, it's still melting today

Besides which, as I've said several times there are the reasons for places that were once above sea level to now be submerged - especially in such tectonically active regions

Thus, we don't actually need any sea level rise at all to explain why these specific locations are now underwater.