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mc32 on Aug 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bronze Age Greek city found underwater

My limited history told me that it wasn't so much sea level rise as much as land level drop mostly caused by ground movement, aka earthquakes.

arethuza on Aug 28, 2015 [–]

It doesn't even require big earthquakes - the pillars of the Macellum of Pozzuoli are famous because they show that the ground sank down to submerge them and them rose back up again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macellum_of_Pozzuoli

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