I was on a hike and read a plaque that said this area used to be completely covered by water. My question is, where did all that water go? Just absorbed into the ground? Evaporated?
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The peak of Everest used to be seafloor. It doesn’t mean that back then the sea is as high as Everest, it’s that Himalaya is a relatively young mountain that are created by Indian plates pushing north, thus pushing what was once seafloor into mountain peak. Sometimes the otherway happens. Like how it’s theorized that Doggerland, which was a seafloor now, used to thrive with humans, the end of ice age however floods the area and pushing humans to higher grounds, British isles and mainland europe. Before you think of normal floods though, do remember these happens within 300 years, so it’s more like the humans realize that the shore gets closer and closer every weeks/month until separating the isles from mainland more than instant flooding.
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