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trying to remember what book and on what page it says how many ft the ocean levels went
up after atlantis returned

I can't recall were I've seen it but its 250 ft. or there abouts. I know its atleast this much because when I drive around the CA Central Valley I check city elevations to figure out what would be under water.

im useing google maps with a sea level ajuster in it a 250ft rise in sea level would put flordia and several other places mentioned in rifts under water could it be 25 ft ? i was trying to find out if a few places i was wanting to use in california would be under water at 250 ft its not under water so i should be good but would still like a book and page # on this info
would be very helpfull.

kevarin wrote:im useing google maps with a sea level ajuster in it a 250ft rise in sea level would put flordia and several other places mentioned in rifts under water could it be 25 ft ? i was trying to find out if a few places i was wanting to use in california would be under water at 250 ft its not under water so i should be good but would still like a book and page # on this info
would be very helpfull.

Kevin never had a google map when he raised the sea level for Rifts, so it dosn't look like it would if the sea levels got that high.

alternately, we could assume that in the upheaval, the level of the ground could have changed as well.

I'd assume at least some upheaval. Really you can't just create new land, if something goes up, something must go down and I can't really imagine that all sea floors just dropped. However, there are several canon references to strange lands being rifted in (new mineral deposits that weren't there pre-rifts, etc, etc).

I'd assume that a bit of the extra land was upheaval from earth quakes, continental plates moving and also upheaval from new lands rifted in (maybe even just deposits or bits of other worlds shoved in deep underground). Of course this would also mean some of the ocean floors have been pushed down as well.
-Matt

You guys are forgeting that the continet of Atlantis was in a dimensional pocket and when the ambient PPE rised to a given level it simple reappeared.

By that alone I can guess that the majority of the sea water presented in the location Atlantis were was rifted to the same pocket dimension that the continent was imprisioned (switched places). That would explain why the sea level dindt raise that much.

That sucking sound you hear...is part of Earth's oceans draining out through dimensional Rifts....

I havn't found a solid number yet,but on pg. 146 of Rift's RPG is says that everything south of Tampa is under 200 ft of water.

Shadow Wyrm wrote:I havn't found a solid number yet,but on pg. 146 of Rift's RPG is says that everything south of Tampa is under 200 ft of water.

Which is funny. Tampa averages only 4-8 ft above sea level now.

A 15ft rise in sea levels would accomplish what you see on the maps in the Rifts books. As for the cities being under water, alot of them were flattened due to the tsunami that continually pounded the coast during the cataclysm. That and the fact that some major cities have an immense amount of underground infrastucture that would have collapsed from earthquakes could explain why some cities sunk.

TechnoGothic wrote:

Shadow Wyrm wrote:I havn't found a solid number yet,but on pg. 146 of Rift's RPG is says that everything south of Tampa is under 200 ft of water.

Which is funny. Tampa averages only 4-8 ft above sea level now.

Don't buy Tampa real estate then...
Unless you're angling for ocean mining rights...

taalismn wrote:

TechnoGothic wrote:

Shadow Wyrm wrote:I havn't found a solid number yet,but on pg. 146 of Rift's RPG is says that everything south of Tampa is under 200 ft of water.

Which is funny. Tampa averages only 4-8 ft above sea level now.

Don't buy Tampa real estate then...
Unless you're angling for ocean mining rights...

Which is why I live Inland,on a Hill that around 400 ft high. Very high up for florida. We are like the 3rd or 4th hightest spot in florida.

Isn't that info in WB7 Underseas?

jaymz wrote:Isn't that info in WB7 Underseas?

Ok just checked, apparently it isn't.

TechnoGothic wrote:
Which is why I live Inland,on a Hill that around 400 ft high. Very high up for florida. We are like the 3rd or 4th hightest spot in florida.

The dinosaurs will get yah then....

One thing tio remeber to is that while Atlantis may have replaced water and Australia now has its inland sea, the ice caps would probably have grown pulling in quite a bit of the extra water over the first century or so during the long nuclear winter so the water levels may have droped back down to more manageable leves by the time of the rifts.