NEWS re Black Sea Flood

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Possibly it was a temporary lake created by melting glaciers, liek
Lake Bonneville

>On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:

>> The incoming salt water, more dense than the fresh water it
>> displaced, plunged to the bottom of the lake bed, transforming it
>> into a sea where the depths support no life.

>But how could the Black Sea have been a freshwater lake during a period
>when it had no outlet to the sea?  The Black Sea has a number of major
>rivers flowing into it, and presumably has had these for a very long
>time.  Rivers carry salt.  If they carry it into a lake with no outlet,
>then the lake just gets saltier and saltier: witness the Caspian Sea,
>which is in just this position.

>Larry Trask

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Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701