--- glennmorton@entouch.net wrote:
Sorry, but in those marshes, where the meteor hit, there is little more than 10
feet of water. Such small amounts will NOT form a tsunami which is a long
wavelength oceanic wave. Most of that water was probably vaporized. What
wasn't couldn't form a wave higher than 10 feet above the water surface. Since
the amplitude of the wave falls off as the square of the distance from the
crater, the wave at Bagdad might wet your toes (assuming no dissipation). The
vast amount of vegetation between the crater and Bagdad would dissippate the
wave quite effectively. Secondly, if you remember the Sumatran tsunami the wave
pulled things out to the ocean, and didn't push people hundreds of miles
inland.
WEH: Are you taking into account that according to the paper the Persian Gulf
extended to the north of its present extent as late as 325 BC? If that were
true, the place where the meteor hit would have been deeper than 10 ft. But I
concede that it's not going to cause a year-long flood.
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
586.986.1474 (work) 248.652.4148 (home) 248.303.8651 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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