NEWS re Black Sea Flood

[X99Lynx at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/5/99 10:17:47 PM, rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu wrote:
<<Possibly it was a temporary lake created by melting glaciers, like
Lake Bonneville>>

I'm on the road and don't have my books, but I believe that the basin of the
Black Sea was formed by continental drift.  It was part of a bigger sea that
included the Mediterranean many millions of years ago - the Telthys Sea (I
think).  The eventual reduction in sea level would have (I think) separated
it from the Med, many millions of years ago.

Glacial lakes are generally much younger, the Pleistocene ending only about
12,000 years ago.  E.g., the Great Lakes.  I'm not sure about the now extinct
(except for the GSL) Bonneville.

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 X99Lynx at aol.com quoted a news release:
>> 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.

L. Trask wrote:
<<But how could the Black Sea have been a freshwater lake during a period
when it had no outlet to the sea?>>

Regards,
Steve Long