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	Black Sea
		It is connected to the Mediterranean by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
		Strabo (7.3.6) thinks that the Black Sea was called inhospitable before Greek colonization because it was difficult to navigate, and because its shores were inhabited by savage tribes, and that the name was changed to hospitable after the Milesians had colonized, as it were making it part of the Greek civilization.
		The Caspian, Azov, Aral and Black Seas are the remnants of this evaporated basin.
	www.wikipediaondvd.com /nav/art/k/l.html (1929 words)

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		The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea.
		The Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world with an average depth of 13 m (43 ft) and maximum depth of 15.3 m (50.2 ft); where silt has built up, such as the Gulf of Taganrog, the average depth is less than 1 m (3.3 ft).
		The Black Sea deluge theory dates the genesis of the Sea of Azov to 5600 BC, and there are traces of Neolithic settlement in the area now covered by it.
	www.encyclopaedia.googlo.ws /index.php?title=Sea_of_Azov (724 words)

	Deluge
		Deluge is the name of a catastrophe fully described in Gen., vi, 1-ix, 19, and referred to in the following passages of Sacred Scripture: Wisd., x, 4; xiv, 6-7; Ecclus., xvi, 8, xliv, 17-19; Is., liv, 9; Matt., xxiv, 37-39; Luke, xvii, 26-27; Hebr., xi, 7; I Peter, iii, 20-21; II Peter, ii, 5.
		The fact that the sea was to be found on the earth, not in heaven, and the damage wrought by the incessant winter-rain and the inundation of great rivers, transferred the myth from heaven to earth, changing the ether-myth into a nature-myth.
		The Deluge is referred to in several passages of Scripture as a historical fact; the writings of the Fathers consider the event in the same light, and this view of the subject is confirmed by the numerous variants under which the Flood tradition lives in the most distant nations of the earth.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/deluge.html (4217 words)

	Information about Bosphorus
		The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea).
		One recent theory (published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University) contends that the Bosporus was formed about 5600 BCE when the rising waters of the Mediterranean/Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time (according to the theory) was a low-lying body of fresh water.
		Some have argued that the resulting massive flooding of the inhabited and probably farmed northern shores of the Black Sea is thought to be the historic basis for the flood stories found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Bible in Genesis, Chapters 6-9.
	english.turkcebilgi.com /Bosphorus (1962 words)

	Black Sea Summary
		The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor that is actually a distant arm of the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Mediterranean Sea.
		The Caspian, Azov, Aral and Black Seas are the remnants of this evaporated basin.
		The Black Sea is the world’s largest meromictic basin, with 90% of its volume occupied by anoxic waters.
	www.bookrags.com /Black_Sea (2085 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Black Sea
		It is connected to the Mediterranean by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
		While it is agreed that the Black Sea has been a freshwater lake (at least in upper layers) with a considerably lower level during the last glaciation, its post glacial development into a marine sea is still a subject of intensive study and debate.
		On the other hand, a study of the sea floor on the Aegean side shows that in the 8th millennium BC there was a large flow of fresh water out of the Black Sea.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Black_Sea (1749 words)

	::: Black Sea ::: Ecosystem Evolution
		This theory argues that the water level in the Black Sea (a lake at that time) was about 50 meters lower than that in the Mediterranean and Marmora Seas.
		The current evolution of the Black Sea is most obviously illustrated by its rising water level, average 20 mm per decade in 20th century; although this secular trend is masked by more pronounced (up to 20 cm) interannual variability of the sea level caused by the changing river discharge.
		Manifestations of the Black Sea's rising water level can be seen almost at any beach: submerged old piers; concrete foundations of beach guards' towers (established some 30 years ago and now covered by waves), sand beaches (once crowded as seen on 20-year-old photographs) having disappeared completely where stone embankments had been constructed.
	blacksea.orlyonok.ru /e2-1.shtml (2707 words)

	Is the Black Sea Flood the Flood of Genesis? - ChristianAnswers.Net
		DSDP drilling in the Black Sea was originally conducted to determine if it had potential as a large oil and gas province (Hs, 1992).
		It was surmised, through the examination of various rock cores, that the Black Sea was in the recent past a large freshwater lake (Figure 1).
		Marine geologist Robert Ballard is exploring the Black Sea in an effort to document the dwellings and structures of folks who were displaced by the rise of the Black Sea thousands of years ago (Reed, 2000).
	www.christiananswers.net /q-crs/crs-blacksea.html (2940 words)

	Black Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most important river entering the Black Sea is the Danube.
		Countries bordering on the Black Sea are Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia.
		The Black Sea deluge theory is based on that idea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Sea (1876 words)

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		By one formulation (7:2,3) the animals were in 7 pairs male and female in the case of clean animals and single pairs in the case of unclean ones.
		The followers of the documentary theory solve the difficulty merely by ascribing the first formulation to J and the second to P; but this does not explain why the redactors should have left this patent contradiction stand.
		But the one who was turned fl obviously was not Ham but the raven, who according to Greek mythology was turned from white to fl by Apollo for having refused to pluck the eyes of his rival Ischys.
	www.metrum.org /deluge/delaniml.htm (1439 words)

	Bosphorus Summary
		The Bosporus, the strait separating the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, is generally viewed as the boundary between Europe and Asia.
		The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea).
		Some have argued that the resulting massive flooding of the inhabited and probably farmed northern shores of the Black Sea is the historic basis for the flood stories found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Bible in Genesis, Chapters 6-9.
	www.bookrags.com /Bosphorus (1299 words)

	Reference for Noah's Ark - Search.com
		Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Deluge, Sistine Chapel, the Vatican.
		The original Deluge is said to have been survived by a certain Na'umi, father of Ham, whose ark landed at a place called Ain Sifni, in the region of Mosul.
		One influential theory held that the biblical Ararat was striped with varying climatic zones, and as climate changed, the associated animals moved as well, eventually spreading to repopulate the globe.
	www.search.com /reference/Noah's_Ark (5632 words)

	BlackSea
		The presence of the dunes indicated that the theory might be correct, and in spite of the accumulation of thousands of years of marine sediments there were still recognizable remnantal land structures existing on the sea floor.
		On the east, the Black Sea is bordered by the Caucasus Mountains and on the south by the Pontic range.
		Interestingly enough, studies of the Dead Sea reflect that the Black Sea flood occurred during an unusually wet historical period, and shortly thereafter the weather in the region assumed a pattern close to that of the present.
	www.biblemysteries.com /library/blacksea.htm (3111 words)

	Atlantis and Noah’s Flood (Deluge) in the Black Sea
		Atlantis and Noah’s Flood (Deluge) in the Black Sea
		Until 5500 BC the Black Sea was a smaller freshwater-lake.
		The breaking Bosporus land barrier led to a Deluge (Noah’s Flood).
	www.black-sea-atlantis.com (135 words)

	NOAA Ocean Explorer: Education - Expedition Purpose
		In 1997, geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman published a theory in which the Black Sea was inundated around 5,600 BC by flood waters from the Mediterranean passing through the Straits of Bosporus at Istanbul.
		The Aegean and Black Sea 2006 Expedition is focused on using modern oceanographic tools and techniques in archaeological investigations of unexplored regions of the Aegean, Black, and Eastern Mediterranean Seas.
		The Black Sea is the world’s largest water body in which the bottom waters never mix with shallower waters (a condition known as meromictic).
	oceanexplorer.noaa.gov /explorations/06blacksea/background/edu/purpose.html (2569 words)

	THE DELUGED CIVILIZATION
		The Cimmerian; of the Crimea; the north shore of the Black Sea.
		The Hebrew-Babylonian; of Noah and Atra-Hasis; the southeast shore of the Black Sea.
		The Black sea may possibly owe its name to a revival of the old name, but this is merely a surmise, I have not investigated and possibly it is too late to ascertain.
	www.radiocom.net /Deluge/Deluge1-6.htm (9824 words)

	Gibson, L. J. --- Local Catastrophes, or a Worldwide Deluge?
		It is doubtful that this theory will become accepted, since australopithecines are not generally regarded as humans, and there is no evidence for the presence of either erectines or australopithecines in the area at the beginning of the Pliocene.
		Their conclusion is that about 7600 radiocarbon years ago, the lake was rapidly inundated with sea water, cutting a channel through the former barrier, and raising the level of the lake to that of the global ocean.
		The Black Sea basin once held a freshwater lake, isolated from the sea by a narrow land barrier.
	www.grisda.org /origins/52053.htm (1334 words)

	The Black Sea deluge theory and the Biblical flood - Water & Oceanography - Helium - by Mary Paliescheskey
		The Black Sea deluge theory and the Biblical flood - Water & Oceanography - Helium - by Mary Paliescheskey
		The direction the water flows depends on the height of the water in the Black Sea in relation to the height of the water in the Aegean Sea.
		The Black Sea deluge theory asserts that there was a prehistoric flood that was caused by an overflow in the Black Se...
	www.helium.com /items/391022-years-black-fresh-water (611 words)

	Deluge of Noah - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		An Egyptian legend of the Deluge is referred to in Plato's Timaeus, where the gods are said to have purified the earth by a great flood of water from which only a few shepherds escaped by climbing to the summit of a high mountain.
		An insuperable objection to this theory is that the later discoveries have brought to light remains of prehistoric man from all over the northern hemisphere, showing that long before the time of the Flood he had become widely scattered.
		At the present time the evaporation over the Aral Sea is so great that two rivers (the ancient Oxus and the Jaxartes), coming down from the heights of central Asia, each with a volume as great as that of Niagara, do not suffice to cause an overflow into the Caspian Sea.
	www.searchgodsword.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T2631 (4075 words)

	Atlantis Shoal of Mud
		The Island of Atlantis was not surrounded by a sea.
		Kerch Strait connects the Sea of Azov, the sea into which the island/plain of Atlantis sank, and the Black Sea, which Solon gave the name the Atlantic, in honor of the first-born son of Atlantis, whom Solon named Atlas.
		The Atlantis Motherland project has presented scientific evidence, in their Great Atlantis Flood theory, that the Sea of Azov was formerly a fertile plain that sank by devastating earthquakes and became a sea, circa 9,600 BC, just as reported in Plato's Dialogues.
	atlantis-today.com /Atlantis_Mud.htm (965 words)

	hunting in black sea - DeeperBlue.net Forums
		as you know, the fl sea is not an open sea....she comunicate with mediteranean sea thrue bosfor and dardanele straits, therefor there are not streams, but i must tell u that is not a calm sea.
		There is a well grounded theory that the Black Sea was a brackish water inland lake, and was catastrophically flooded from the Mediterranean Sea through Bosporus and Dardanelles some 7000 years ago.
		I really loved diving in the Black Sea - besides its fauna and flora different than in the Mediterranean Sea, also the salinity is very pleasant - you can dive without a mask and feel no irritation in eyes and sinus like in most other seas, and even less than in freshwater.
	forums.deeperblue.net /fish-photos-regulations/70667-hunting-black-sea.html (2178 words)

	Laura Lee News - Traces of Ancient Habitation Found in the Black Sea
		Off the coast of northern Turkey, 311 feet (95 meters) below the Black Sea, explorer Robert Ballard has discovered remains of an ancient structure that was apparently flooded in a deluge of biblical proportions.
		The find represents "the first concrete evidence for the occupation of the Black Sea coast prior to its flooding," says expedition archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
		Following a theory proposed by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman, Ballard searched for evidence that the Black Sea, originally a freshwater lake, filled rapidly with salt water spilling from the Mediterranean Sea about 7,500 years ago through what is now the Bosporus.
	www.lauralee.com /news/blacksea.htm (1044 words)

	flood
		When the Dardanus' deluge occurred, the land was flooded and the mountain on which he and his family survived, formed the island of Samothrace.
		One of the latest, and quite controversial, theories of this type is the Ryan-Pitman Theory, which argues for a catastrophic deluge about 5600 BC from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea.
		Woolley concluded that this inundation of the early Ubaid was the Biblical Deluge.
	www.greatflood.3xtak.pl (6278 words)

	The Time Machine
		The new theory about the origin of the Baltic people using archaeological data of the evolutional changes of the eastern Baltic sea coast mesolithic cultures was published recently by Algirdas Girininkas The Narva Culture and the origin of the Baltic culture, The Indo-Europeanization of Northern Europe, Washington, 1996, p.42–47.
		The Continuity Theory proposes that Indo-European speakers arrived in Europe tens of millennia ago, and that by the end of the Ice Age, had already differentiated into Celtic/Italic/Germanic/etc. speakers occupying territories within or close to their traditional homelands.
		The mainstream position of historical linguistics is that genetic continuity does not imply linguistic continuity and that theories of a literal "military conquest" have fallen into disfavour with most supporters of the theory of a Chalcolithic origin of Indo-European.
	kestutisturbo.blogspot.com (4316 words)

	Black Sea deluge theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized prehistoric flood that occurred when the Black Sea rapidly filled.
		As the glaciers retreated, rivers emptying into the Black Sea reduced their volume and found new outlets in the North Sea, and the water levels lowered through evaporation.
		Countering the theory is a vast amount of data collected by Russian scientists, for example the extensive research of Valentina Yanko-Hombach, a geology professor of Odessa State University, Ukraine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_theory (1077 words)

	No. 1192: Black Sea
		The Black Sea was a great freshwater lake in those days and, as the new technology of farming matured eight thousand years ago, farmers moved into the lands around it.
		The Black Sea had turned from fresh water to salt, and its size increased by a third.
		The rest of the Black sea is fed by the fresh Danube and Dnieper river water, but it's also fed by the salty Mediterranean.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1192.htm (551 words)

	Black Sea
		The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and
		Strabo (7.3.6) thinks that the Black Sea was called inhospitable before Greek colonization because it was difficult to navigate, and because its shores were inhabited by savage tribes, and that the name was changed to hospitable after the
		Azov, Aral and Black Seas are the remnants of this evaporated basin.
	schools-wikipedia.org /wp/b/Black_Sea.htm (1506 words)

	best race - Aryan Languages
		This theory remains controversial, like the similar Eurasiatic theory of Joseph Greenberg, and the Proto-Pontic postulation of John Colarusso.
		According to the Kurgan hypothesis, chalcolithic steppe cultures of the 5th millennium BC between the Black Sea and the Volga spoke early PIE.
		Other theories exist, often with a nationalistic flavour, sometimes bordering on national mysticism, and typically positing the development in situ of their proponents' respective homes.
	aryanist.blogfa.com /post-8.aspx (2229 words)

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