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From: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
Newsgroups: talk.origins,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Creation, Evolution, and Flood
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 09:57:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 09:57:45 1986
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In article <136@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>
>Question: one of the theories being bandied about is the possibility
>that the Mediteranean may have been dry at one point (straits of
>Gibralter being closed), and an earthquake or other landslip at one 
>point would have punctured the "wall" at Gibralter and the Atlantic 
>filled the Mediteranean in.  
>
Going by the theory of Plate Tectonics, the African plate separated from
the Antartican plate and joined Europian plate.  If this is true, water
would have gotten trapped in the Mediterranean region irrespective of whether
Gibralter was closed or not.

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