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Overview and Assessment of the Evidence for the Date of the Eruption of Thera by P. I. Kuniholm, Aegean ... (3083 words) |
 | Marinatos's 1939 evidence for a 1500 BC eruption. |
| He found that on a number of samples the years 1628-1626 BC were the narrowest rings in the entire lifetime of the tree (Baillie and Munro 1988). |
| 1628 BC, then, and the years immediately following, were bad years in areas as widely separated as California, Northern Ireland, the Aegean (presuming Thera was the culprit), and even, perhaps, China (see #16 below). |
| 3000bc (5257 words) |
| BP (6000-4000 BC) at which time the temperature is warming culminating in an era warmer than present, when equatorial weather patterns may have reached farther north than at present, and the westerly storms of the north would have been confined to latitudes higher than at present. |
| At about 3500 BC the lower Tigris and Euphrates alluvial plain was under extreme pressure from both rapidly rising sea and buildup of the Karun delta. |
| The 3199 BC value is associated with an acidity peak in Camp Century ice cores dated at 3150 B,c demonstrating unquestionably that adverse weather conditions, probably due either to volcanic eruption or meteoric impact, occurred at this time. |
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