Over 500 world flood myths- Myth or meteor?

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Over 500 world flood myths-Myth or meteor?

• World flood myths and glacial melting
• -Kristin Samples

http//geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/pe/a/harbbook/c_viii
/chap08.html
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Myths
Flood
http//www.mythstories.com/talkI.html
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In the geological past, within human experience,
several great floods are widely suspected to have
occurred, with varying amounts of supporting
evidence. -Wikipedia
http//www.stenudd.com/myth/logics3.htm
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Maximum ice extent at the Last Glacial Maximum
During the last Glacial Maximum sea levels
were 120 130 meters higher. Starting c.
18,000 years ago sea levels began to
rise. Most of the glacial melt had occurred
by c.8,000 years ago. Changes would not have
been regular. The immense weight of the ice
sheets depressed the continental plates.
http//www-qpg.geog.cam.ac.uk/lgmextent.html
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During the Last Glacial Maximum the currently
submerged darker
areas were dry land.
http//www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/sc-har
ry.htm
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• Where silts formed dikes that protected low-lying
  areas, a winter storm or sudden spurt of melt
  water thousands of miles away could raise ocean
  levels, resulting in catastrophic erosion and
  massive flooding.

• The ocean could fill vast basins in a matter of
  weeks or months.

http//geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/pe/a/harbbook/c_viii
/chap08.html
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The Carpentaria Plain
http//www.union.edu/PUBLIC/ANTDEPT/10f01/austpng.
htm

• During glacial times a level plain joined
  Australia with New Guinea.
• C. 12,000 10,000 years ago, it was flooded to
  form the Gulf of Carpentaria.
• Aboriginal myths of dream time incorporate a
  few great flood myths, where floods would not
  have been common in the region.

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Great Sunda wetlands of Indonesia

• During glacial times a huge peaty swap land
  joined Malaya, Sumatra, Java and southwestern
  Bornei to the Asia mainland.
• The present land masses were high lands framing a
  vast wetland ecosystem now covered by the
  southern parts of the South China Sea.
• This flood was possibly onset by a catastrophic
  monsoon.

http//www.pbs.org/newshour/images/asia/indonesia/
big_map.jpg
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North America

• During the glacial maximum Proglacial lakes
  formed and shifted in the area of the great
  lakes.
• The lakes drainage system sometimes shifted south
  into the Mississippi system, sometimes into the
  Artic or east into the Atlantic.

http//earth.usc.edu/geol150/evolution/pleistocene
.html
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Glacial Lake Agassiz

• Agassiz created a series of great floods as
  ice-dam configurations failed , pumping massive
  pulses of freshwater into the worlds oceans.

http//www.geog.umn.edu/courses/5441/agassi2.gif
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The MissoulaFloods

• The Missoula Floods of Washington were also
  caused by breaking ice damns, resulting in
  channeled scablands.

http//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/IceShe
ets/Maps/map_missoula_floods.htm l
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Lake Ojibway

• Lake Ojibway reached its largest point c. 8,500
  yrs ago, when it joined with Lake Agassiz.
• Its outlet was blocked by glaciers so, it
  drained by tributaries into St. Lawrence far to
  the South.
• C. 8,300 7,700 years ago the melting ice damn
  over the Hudson Bays southwestern most extension
  narrowed to the point that pressure and buoyancy
  lifted it free and the ice damn failed.
• The lake was 250 meters above sea level.
• Its volume is estimated to have been 163,000
  cubic kilometers, more than enough water to cover
  flattened out Antarctica with a sheet of water 10
  meters deep.
• The lake was added to the worlds oceans in a
  matter of months .

http//earth.usc.edu/geol150/evolution/pleistocene
.html
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Tollmans hypothetical Bolide

• Hypothesis presented by the Austrian Prof of
  Geology Dr. Alexander Tollman.
• The Hypothesis states that one or several bolides
  struck the earth c. 7640 BCE. A much larger
  instance was suppose to have occurred c. 3150
  BCE.
• The first would have explained the extinction of
  mega fauna, while the second would account for
  the global flood myths.

http//www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.data.image.t/t5
80717a.jpg
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• The positive scientific evidence includes
  stratigraphic studies of

• tektites, dendrochronoloy, and ice cores (from
  Camp Century, Greenland) containing hydrocholoric
  and sulphuric acid (indicating an energetic ocean
  strike) as well as nitric acids (caused by
  extreme heating of air).

http//www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/outreach1/expmetmy
s/slideset/Meteor.JPG
http//www.visitdeadends.com/images/lopez_meteors.
jpg
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Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America

• C. 7,640 BCE is consistent with the dates of the
  formation of a number of salt flats in North
  America and in Asia.

http//myweb.dal.ca/mrygel/photogallery2.htm
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Bibliography
http//www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/general/
ge-jvmj.htm

• http//www.answers.com/topic/deluge-prehistoric
• http//www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/T/To
  /Tollmanns_hypothetical_bolide.htm
• http//www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1/fl
  ood.asp
• http//www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
• http//geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/pe/a/harbbook/c_viii
  /chap08.html
• http//www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/index.php?titleD
  eluge_(prehistoric)