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Natural PlacesSite Name: Besh BarmakCountry: Azerbaijan
NOTE: This site is 12.166 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Baku
Latitude: 40.930720N Longitude: 49.235640E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Caspian Sea High Water Tide Mark.
At +150m relative to mean Sea Level I suspect the tide marks shown on the image to be the result of meltwater inundation from the northern glacial ice caps and date back to the end of the last ice age.
The lines are rather finely etched onto the soft hillside and may have survived weathering processes by being sheltered on the lee side of the hill, away from prevailing weather.
By extrapolating the extent of the Caspian Sea a huge area of land is affected encompassing the Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Black Sea and much of low lying Eurasian territories. Mankind must have been greatly affected by this event making this event a prime candidate for the Biblical Noah’s flood.
The tideline confirms the theory of a Holocene outflow of meltwater from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, rather than a direct incursion of sea water into the Black Sea as a result of global sea level rise.
Previous estimates of the increase in Caspian Sea level height are between + 20 and 30 Meters msl.
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