William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mount-ararat-and-noah-s-ark-research-team-discovers-marine-fossils-suggesting-ancient-flood/ar-AA1Ayq5A … experts, or researchers, from Istanbul Technical University and Andrews University in the US, among others, have been visiting Mount Ararat and reviving research from over 70 years ago. They have concentrated their efforts on the Duropinos Formation, an 538 feet geological feature composed of limonite and located and located a considerable distance from the summit of the mountain. What attrracted the interest in the first place was the formation appeared to look like a boat – in profile.
It is situated near the border between Turkey and Iran and the story has resurfaced in western media on several occasions over the years. This time they say they have collected sample of rock and soil from the Duropinos Formation. They say these contain ‘traces’ of clay like material, rather than clay itself, as well as what they call marine deposits. A lot of rocks contain marine fossils of some kind or other but this claim is qualified by further saying there was sea food remants. Not sure what that could be but it is said to include molluscs. The researchers even determined a date for the deposit. At 3500 to 5000 years ago. A period of 1500 years that comprises the early and middle bronze ages – and probably part of the late bronze age. In spite of that we are told the deposit dates from the chalcolithic period – prioir to 5000 years ago. This may refer to a particular culture endemic in that part of the world, immediately south of the Caucasus, that did indeed flourish between 3000 and 2000BC, and possibly a bit longer. Hence, some confusion here in defining the period as in Syria and Mesopotamia proper it was the bronze age. The confusion may have arisen as a result of translation.
The important point is that they think their deposit coincides with the Bliblical numbers that date Noah and his Flood. It seems that Islamic researchers are as keen on Noah as Christian ones have been in the past. Interesting to see how this might pan out in the long term. The Duropinos Formation, as far as the modern world is concerned, was initially discovered and made public by a Kurdish farmer in 1948. It was brought to world wide attentiion in 1951 by a Turkish Army captain during a NATO mapping mission. The media ran with it and some intrepid explorers set out to prove the existence of Noah’s Ark. On several occasions.
William also supplied a list of videos by Brian Foerster which may appeal to catastrophists. A day or so later he sent in a link to his comprehensive list of sources on catastrophism. Go to –
Alternatively, go to the Academia web site and key in the name of the title Cosmic Catastrophism Affecting the Earth Bibliography and Handbook.