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The Missoula Floods in the northwestern US were a similar sort of event, though I'm not sure how the scale compares. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_flo
by GolfPopper 1mo ago
The Missoula Floods in the northwestern US were a similar sort of event, though I'm not sure how the scale compares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
- colechristensen 1mo agoYes this is exactly the kind of thing i'm talking about and in the time frame which is at least plausible to make its way through mythology to modern day (not so much for the flooding of a dry mediterranean sea five million years ago)
- dredmorbius 29d agoThe flooding of the Black Sea, OTOH, might have played a part in the Flood Myth, having occurred around 7,600 years ago (5600 BCE): <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis>