dry red sea

[Straha]

The south exit of the Red Sea is called the Bab el Mandeb. In it is
Perim Island, which is an old volcano. If Perim Island had been more
active recently, it would block the Bab el Mandeb, and the Red Sea
would evaporate empty dry. That would lose all that evaporation area
to wet the air, and likely the west of Saudi Arabia would be even
drier than now. effects?

[wkwillis]

The Red Sea would dry up all the way to MgSO4 and K2SO4, or MgCL2 and KCL, depending. The hot air would mean that humans couldn't live there at the bottom, or cross except in midwinter. The air would be dense enough to support larger flying insects, reptiles, birds, and perhaps mammals, when you got to the bottom.
There would be no Mecca, and no Mohammed, and it would really cripple the Egyptians as far as trade with the India Ocean was concerned.

[Anthony Appleyard]

Harry Turtledove wrote a story "Down in the Bottomlands" where the Mediterranean Sea stayed dry instead of refilling at the end of the Miocene.

[tom]

The Rehabilitation of Christopher Columbus speculates that the Red Sea was the site of the Pre-Flood civilization, something like the Black Sea might actually have been.

[Promethean]

Arabia is even dryer then now.

[Calcion]

What. The. Hell???

You necro-ed a thread from 2004 For crying out loud! :mad:

[Promethean]

yes oh im so evil mhuhahaha :cool::D:p

[Hnau]

Well... why this thread, specifically?

[DuQuense]

In it is Perim Island, which is an old volcano. If Perim Island had been more active recently,
it would block the Bab el Mandeb, and the Red Seawould evaporate empty dry.
Depends on what Recently means.

post 1850 and the Suez would flow into the Red instead of the Med.
Pre 1850, and whe would dig canals for Hydropower, like the Dead sea, or Quadi Depression proposals.