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Subject: Re: [DNA] Norwegian Earthquake/Tsunami in Scotland 7000 BP.
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 03:13:56 EST

In a message dated 12/31/2004 11:49:27 AM Central Standard Time,
writes:

> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/iainsub/studwebpage/best/Storegga.html

First question I had to ask was: what's a Storregga (storregga, or storegga
spellings also) when it's at home -- a place name or an event? The answer is
it is/was the name of a Shelf off the Norwegian coast.

Second, while your referenced article was interesting to me as I also love
geology, I found articles which discuss the human impact of this event at
http://leylines.members.beeb.net/John%20North.htm
http://ilrg.gndci.cnr.it/volumes/v14dn5.htm
www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx117.htm

which mentions "evidence of Mesolithic camps being overwhelmed in Scotland,
and it has been theorised a connection may exist with the disappearance of the
land bridge between Southern Britain and the Continent..." Obviously this has
implications for human migrations. {you might have known this already, Alan ,
but some of us didn't; I am hoping n > 1 person here!)


There is an animated model of the slide at
www.ormenlange.com/en/about_ormen/key_features/storegga_slide

Nice map at www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/z_28_04.html

Another site goes so far as to say this tsunami "drowned Scotland" 7,000
years ago" which has even more implications for those of us looking into the
humans living there and their migrations and DNA.

A related paper seems to be at
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_53419.htm

These specifically mentions the Shetland Islands
www.ibg.uit.no/~stein/abstarct02fig_NPF2002.htm
atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/caji-20
www.dsm.unile.it/Bacheca/IGCP437FinalConference/AbstractBook/Dawson67_68.pdf

This mentions an effect on the diatoms in the Baltic Sea -- which, if I
remember anything from my biology, may well have effected the availability of fish
and shellfish varities and therefore the food supply -- again a reason for
human migrations.
www.geo.lt/Baltica/B14/S11.htm
www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.nsf/Attachments/Coldwater%2Bcorals/%24FILE
/ColdwCoralsx.pdf

I don't know enough about farming but I would suspect substantial oceanic
silt deposits might also change the food bearing plants and again, the human
population and its migrations.

Interesting link between this event and climate changes
www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~mmaslin/publications/Maslin1.pdf

General Interest
www.uib.no/People/ngljm/Bondevik-al-03-EOS.pdf

For those who love disaster movies and such
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D/news/2001/08/29/nwave29.xml

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid%3D15016998%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D89488%26headline%3Donly--a-matter-of-time--until-scotland-is-hit-name_page.html


Thanks Alan for an interesting little journey.

Anne

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