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marduk wrote:santorini didn't sink beneath the sea
and platos date does actually match a huge flood that occoured in 9500bce and devastated a large island that had a central mountain range that the races of the ANE were aware of which was beyond the pillars of hercules and larger than asia and libya combined
oops ive said too much
now you'll wanna know which one it was

and that would kill all the erroneous speculation and psuedoscience
carry on guys

The island was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the last several thousand years when it erupted cataclysmically about 3,500 years ago. The eruption left a large caldera surrounded by volcanic ash deposits hundreds of feet deep, and its effects may have indirectly led to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, 110 km (70 mi) to the south.

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Santorini eruption much larger than originally believed;
likely had significant impact on civilization

URI, Greek scientists find hydrothermal vent system nearby

KINGSTON, R.I. – August 23, 2006 – An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed.

In 1991 Sigurdsson and his URI colleague Steven Carey had estimated that 39 cubic kilometers of magma and rock had erupted from the volcano around 1600 B.C., based on fallout they observed on land.