Comments on: Cataclysmic Flood Could Have Formed the Mediterranean Sea in Mere Months

By: YouRang

YouRang — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:48:12 +0000

What I’ve always wondered (and after this even more so) is: If the flow was this tremendous wouldn’t it have disrupted all the various structures on the bottom of the Mediterranean that led to the interpretation of the data that said the Mediterranean had dried up?

By: Shufei

Shufei — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:32:55 +0000

It may not happen at Death Valley, as there are high desert mountains and many miles between. But the Salton Sea is a very likely location, separated from the Pacific by a thin, low patch of ground.. Local leaders have considered boaring a tunnel to the Sea of Cortez in order to refill and detoxify this endangered inland sea. Furthermore, only human engineering efforts prevent the Colorado from periodically refilling the area.

By: Michael Swanson

Michael Swanson — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:48:48 +0000

It’s possible for something similar to happen anywhere in the world, provided there are geologic and climate similarities to the Strait of Gibraltar. And Death Valley isn’t a coastal region, it’s closer to Nevada’s border than it is to the Pacific.

By: Tao

Tao — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:10:28 +0000

Could this same course of events repeat itself in the future in death valley or some other low-land coastal region in the US?

By: Poo

Poo — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:04:14 +0000

Thanks to J. Harlen Bretz, this hypothesis can be read as realistic.