Subject: Re: NEWS re Black Sea Flood

[Anthony Appleyard]

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

  The Caspian Sea also has an outlet: into a big narrow-necked bay called
Kara Bogaz Gol (Turkic for "Black Bay Lake"), and THAT is maximum saline and is
the ultimate sink for that drainage basin's salt.

  Re the Black Sea : perhaps this happened. The Ice Age came. The sea level
sank below the sill in the Bosporus. The straits got blocked with alluvial fans
washed in from side valleys such as the Golden Horn at Istanbul. So the Black
Sea wouldn't refill until the sea had overtopped and broken that natural dam.
(I read that a similar natural catastrophic dam-burst was why in Nevada and
area (USA) Lake Bonneville suddenly drained down to the Lake Provo level.)