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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
No idea, but logically if the Eurasian and African plates were moving closer to each other, the width of the Mediterranean would narrow and raise the water level. Of course, plates move quite slowly (except in earthquakes, but that is a release of tension and not continental drift), and can be measure in millions of years, so 2,000 years, appears, at least empirically, to be too short a time frame.
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You do realize that the Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Gibraltar. Also, Mount Blanc in the Alps is 15,776 feet above sea level. Given that the Alps were also created by plate tectonics. This would mean that Mont Blanc would take about 1.5 million years o ties to that height if we use the apparent shift in land mass in your picture (20 ft in 2000 years). A change of 0.01 ft per year would be barely perceptible.