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The US Navy Map of Future Coastline? That one dates to 2012 if memory serves, but has been kicking around in various forms since the mid 1990s and has its roots in
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I would note that Scallion's original concept "doomsday" map was predicated on a bunch of catastrophes befalling us all prior to 2012 - believe the date was coincident with the Earth's impending "water death" attendant to the Mayan Calendar ending on 12/21/2012. So this concept has been around for nigh 30 years now.
I believe the Navy's version takes into account massive tectonic activity associated with the Yellowstone caldera and a solar micronova. Don't remember if the events were concurrent or not though - perhaps the effects were additive? If a micronova, magnetic field reversal, rotational shift and attendant global tsunami were to occur, I'd expect the outcome to look a bit different with respect to Missouri.
If I remember correctly the Navy's map shows the entire eastern half of Missouri being submerged while the western half remains dry. I'll call bullshit on that - at least in part - as the St. Francis Mountains of Southeast Missouri are composed of a granitic core dating to Precambrian time which extends well below the alluvial fan and unconsolidated sediments of the Mississippi embayment that overlie the New Madrid seismic zone. In short: They are the high point of the state, have a firm foundation and won't be going anywhere in a flood.
So even if the worst case scenario of Doug Vogt's global tsunami occurs along with seismic activity, parts of eastern Missouri should remain - though it may be an Island. Of course there won't be many people left to inhabit it, but cleansing of the STL area wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
So yeah, I've been looking at and studying this stuff for a long time. I picked up a minor in geology (my first love) along with an engineering degree, and have been looking at doomsday scenarios since they came to prominence after the 1989 San Francisco, 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe Japan earthquakes. Those events really shook up the engineering community, and doomsday scenarios and planning really became a thing thereafter.
Edit: View that map link I provided, and expand and read the map description. They give even more detailed info on the "catastrophism" mindset that created it.
It never cease to amaze me how knowledgeable some are on here about random things.
That's not the map I saw, but it's real close to it. The one I saw was in reference to the pole shifts. I want to say it was an updated map released last summer. I'll try to find it. I know I have it saved somewhere. It doesn't have so much of the land masses missing. It doesn't really matter.
What are your thoughts on the probability of it becoming reality?
The map I linked is - I believe - the second or third iteration, but essentially it is the first publicly released that prophesied a global "re-org" of land mass. Are you familiar with Doug Vogt and his Diehold Corporation non-profit he established to study pole reversal, micronovaing of the sun and attendant cataclysm? He discussed major floods, geologic evidence for them, probable outcomes from them, recurrence intervals, etc. He laid out brilliant pieces of evidence to support the Earth's rotational direction changing at the same time as all the above, but it was never clear to me how this happened. If you consider the earth to be a giant spinning mass, the energy required to slow, stop, reverse and bring it back up to speed in the opposite direction would be unbelievably immense - and I never understood how he proposed it happened.
But geologic evidence would seemingly appear to support it. If the earth changed rotation directions, all the water in the oceans wouldn't just go along with it. It would tend to flow in the direction it had been going, and would flow out of its basin in an attempt to continue flowing Eastward. Potentially this would scour the landscape, wash away most signs of mans existence and wash it across the continent dumping all the debris into the Atlantic basin. It would wash away alluvium and potentially scour large unsecured blocks of basement rock, but I don't think it would remove mountain ranges. Severely alter them? Yes. Vast inland sea? Maybe, but more likely it's footprint would be much less than depicted in the maps we've discussed.
Evidence point towards a 12,000+/- year recurrence interval, and I'd place money on it (well something majorly globally catastrophic anyway) happening along the lines of that interval - but who knows when? So yes, I believe it will become a reality sometime. Doug Vogt went waaaay out on a limb with this, and identified a specific date for it to go down. Might be off on the exact day, but I believe he predicted it will occur on October 15th 2046.
So keep your calendar open and schedule a day off from work so you can live it. A friend and I have agreed to meet on the summit of Mt. Evans (ahh fuck - they changed its name to Mt. Blue Sky) in Colorado to watch it all go down. Pretty sure that all but the tunneliest of tunnel jews will get washed away at that time, and I want to watch it all go down!