Digital Geology Tour of Asia
Plate tectonics Plate movements of the world over the last 100 million years. Persian Gulf Before the glacial melt of 20,000 years ago, the current Persian Gulf was 500 feet above the sea level. It was a fertile valley and the home of Asians (Chinese and Hindus) from 80,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE. When the Gulf was submerged, all the people moved east. Landscape before the glacial melt Before the glacial melt, the Red Sea was a lake, the Persian Gulf was a fertile valley, the west coast of India extended over 200 miles to the then-Arabian Sea, and the land from Bangladesh to Australia was a giant fertile valley. The landscape of that time period was entirely different from that of today. Habitable lands Before the current era, not all the land was habitable. People lived only in lowlands of perennial rainwater rivers of mountain ridges that were perpendicular to the monsoon winds. The ridges had giant reservoirs (craters) that stocked rainwater in the monsoon season and released it slowly during the dry months as dependable waterfalls. The rivers were actually deep cracks in the rocks. The craters and cracks were formed millions of years ago when the plates collided. People lived only along the patches of lowlands with perennial rainwater resources. Network of invisible rivers The digital river network derived from the NASA database has an entirely different picture compared to what is normally portrayed in India maps. It shows rivers that are not obvious to the naked eye. The monsoon winds reverse direction every 20,000 years. Every 20,000 years, half of the rivers are full and the rest are empty. They reverse every 20,000 years. Asians painted caves 60,000 years ago Around 60,000 years ago, when the landscape was entirely different, Asians walked from Somalia to Australia on land along rainwater rivers. They had an abundant supply of food resources along the path. They were culturally highly advanced and painted caves along their path. The Sunda cave art, on the Sulawesi Island of Indonesia, was dated to be more than 60,000 years old. Artistically, the paintings are comparable to paintings found in art museums of today. |