SEA SEDIMENTS' ANCIENT STORIES
The following story was published this week in the New York Times. It’s amazing how technology allows us to dig deeper and deeper into the past. In this case to help discover how a volcanic eruption 3,000 years ago may well have reverberations today. Thera, or Santorini as we call it, where this huge eruption took place, is a stop on our Greece expeditions.
In the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunami’s from an Ancient Eruption.
by William J. Broad
Published November 2, 2009
“The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found.” Click here to read the article.
Photo is an aerial view of Santorini today.
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