worldwide network of microphones that originally cost $15 billion.This surveillance system, located on the underwater shelves of continents, was previously used to monitor underwater nuclear explosions and to track submarines and surface ships.Scientists such as Christopher G. Fox, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, can now use the underwater microphones to pick up many ...
sea-level as much as 9 inches in just a few days. The rising water would have moved up the low-lying continental shelves that had been exposed during glaciation. Human beings, retreating inland before the inflowing water, may have reminisced and exaggerated afterward, giving rise to tales of drowned continents and universal floods.Shaw's suggestion is obviously controversial but it presents a ...