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    Mediterranean megaflood confirmed

    Mediterranean megaflood confirmed

    There were probably other regional floods as well. But a global flood- no way possible.

    Once upon a time there was a massive flood across the Mediterranean Sea, an in-pouring of water so huge that it excavated a canyon five kilometres deep and 20 kilometres long, and created a waterfall with a 1.5 kilometre drop.

    Evidence for the great flood, long hypothesised, has now been found by a team of researchers led by geoscientist Aaron Micallef from the University of Malta.


    And while several Mediterranean traditions feature great flood narratives, the earliest arising from Sumeria and already well enough known to be recorded in cuneiform by the seventeenth century BCE, this one is unlikely to have been the inspiration.


    In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Micallef and colleagues present geological evidence for an event known as the Zanclean megaflood, which took place around 5,300,000 years ago.


    The flood was preceded by a catastrophic geologic transformation called the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC), described by the researchers as “the most abrupt, global-scale environmental change since the end of the Cretaceous”.


    In the Mediterranean region, the crisis was caused by the closure of what today is known as the strait of Gibraltar, cutting the passage between the sea and the Atlantic Ocean. This occurred around six million years ago.
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    What about the massive flood that ripped thru the Strait of Bosporus, in Turkey and flowed into the Black Sea? That could have been the Noah flood. They have found whole villages under the water.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    What about the massive flood that ripped thru the Strait of Bosporus, in Turkey and flowed into the Black Sea? That could have been the Noah flood. They have found whole villages under the water.
    A lot more recent than the Mediterranean flood. OTOH, as this link mentions, the ending of the last Ice Age, where Mankind was definitely around, would have seen several such floods due to melting glaciers.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_...ood_hypothesis


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    What about the massive flood that ripped thru the Strait of Bosporus, in Turkey and flowed into the Black Sea? That could have been the Noah flood. They have found whole villages under the water.
    I agree. That was another regional flood. There were several.
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    As the Wiki link mentioned, the rate of flow is difficult to determine. Obviously a slowly rising lake isn't same as a flood. One possibility is that the slow melting built up behind a natural dam which, later, broke and flooded everything downstream.


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    The Black Sea Flood is likely the Noah story.
    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
    What about the massive flood that ripped thru the Strait of Bosporus, in Turkey and flowed into the Black Sea? That could have been the Noah flood. They have found whole villages under the water.
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