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To: Moominoid who wrote (17840)	4/5/2002 7:01:17 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The drying up was "slow enough to allow for biological adaption and gradual colonization of the new habitats, even at the pace of a turtle." See the link posted by David: med.abaco-mac.it It fits my theory that everything in nature happens at turtle pace.

To: Moominoid who wrote (17840)	4/5/2002 7:15:11 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

As the ice age kept storing water in frozen state inland, the weight of the ice sheet pressed the European northernmost land against the magma. Over thousands of years the magma below it sunk. But raised in the south pushing up the land. The parts that wasn't covered by ice, where the Mediterranean Sea is was pressed upwards. Pushed the water back to the Atlantic. Rivers were non existent. That's why we have Holland -which is slowly sinking again as Scandinavia land is still rising as the magma underneath levels again free of ice on top of it. During the ice age, the land covered by water raised and that's what is Holland today. (We don't call them Low Countries for nothing) This is a process that millennia. While that happens, Mediterranean Sea, slowly sinks again and as it sinks, mm by mm, as you see happening with Holland today, water collects on the -again- lowered land. The thing that I most like of dropping off at high school is that without stupid teachers and silly curricula you learn the beauty of nature by yourself just because it is beauty. And no one can learn the stuff better than this way.

To: Moominoid who wrote (17840)	4/5/2002 6:15:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Thanks for the links David. Cyberspace is so great! Here's my civil engineering suggestion: dam the Strait of Gibraltar and as the Mediterranean evaporates and the level lowers, generate power as it refills from the Atlantic pipeline. That would make the Three Gorges power generation project look trivial. The Nile could be fed through a pipeline and generate power too. Also, the Bosphorus! The Red Sea could supply power at the eastern end too. The Suez Canal would need a few more locks added as the level dropped. There would need to be some impressive locks for ships to get up and down to the Atlantic. They'd be a great tourist attraction. With big pipes, large ships could be raised and lowered hundreds of meters in a matter of minutes. There would be no shortage of water, so there would be no delay [as there is with canals] waiting for more water to arrive to do the job. That would create huge amounts of new beach-front property around the Mediterranean, which would enable the population enjoying the sunshine to dramatically increase, which would add huge value to the region [though people who used to be on the water edge would get property value drops]. Quite a power station: <...Eventually, a small breach in the Gibraltar dam sent the process into reverse. Ocean water cut a tiny channel to the Mediterranean. As the channel enlarged, the water flowed faster and faster, until the torrent ripped through the emerging Strait of Gibraltar at more than 100 knots. "The Gibraltar Falls were one hundred times bigger than Victoria Falls and a thousand times grander than Niagara," Hsü wrote in his book The Mediterranean was a Desert (Princeton University Press, 1983). > Mqurice