The Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis: An Exploration into Earth’s History

<p>The Black Sea deluge hypothesis was first proposed in the 1990s by William Ryan and Walter Pitman, two geologists from Columbia University. According to their theory, at the end of the last Ice Age (around 12,000 to 7,000 years ago), the Earth&rsquo;s climate was warming, and ice sheets were melting, causing sea levels to rise.</p> <p>During this period, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake, much smaller and shallower than it is today, and was cut off from the Mediterranean Sea by a natural dam formed by the Bosporus Strait. Ryan and Pitman suggest that as the global sea level rose, the Mediterranean Sea began to overflow into the Black Sea basin.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@wivaa/the-black-sea-deluge-hypothesis-an-exploration-into-earths-history-1dc296fc66ef"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>