--- elayavalli <elayavalli@xxxx> wrote: However, the British team that was part of the expedition > has a different take: > > "I had a chat with some of my colleagues here in the Dept. of > Geological Sciences and it is probably reasonable to assume that > there has been very little vertical tectonic motion in this region > [i.e. the coastal region around Mahabalipuram] during the past five > > thousand years or so. Therefore, the ominant process driving sea- > level change will have been due to the melting of the Late > Pleistocene ice sheets. Sir, This appears to be more hypothesis than theory. Geologists tell us that submersion need not always be the result of tectonic movement. Flooding can also be caused over several years through gradual but relentless sea-erosion. (As experts now say is what is happening to the Gangetic deltaic region of W.Bengal and parts of Bangladesh). Is it not therefore possible to offer an alteranate hypothesis that Mammallapuram may have been submerged due to sea-erosion rather than through tectonic movemements caused by seismic agitation? And hence, the date of the AzhwAr may have been much later/more recent than may be otherwise inferred from the tectonic hypothesis? Anyway, it should be interesting to find out what facts are unearthed by experts from the new discovery of more submerged temples in the area. Let us all wait and see. Just a thought. Regards, dAsan, Sudarshan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
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