[Geology2] Massive Canadian melt may have triggered flood of biblical proportions

More on the submerged Persian Gulf civilization, with emphasis on the
geological elements:

Massive Canadian melt may have triggered flood of biblical proportions
Montreal Gazette, December 10, 2010
A British researcher has published a startling new theory that the
remains of untold ancient settlements from a 100,000-year stretch of
human history were submerged by the rapidly rising waters of the Persian
Gulf around 6,000 BC – the result, in all likelihood, of a
catastrophic, planetwide flood triggered in Canada. There's a consensus
among scientists that the collapse of a kilometres-high glacial dam at
the end of the last ice age caused a massive outflow of meltwater into
the Arctic or North Atlantic Ocean near Hudson Bay, generating a sharp
rise in sea levels around the world and profoundly altering the Earth's
climate. Some scientists have even speculated that ancient myths about
great floods – culminating in the biblical story of Noah's Ark –
were inspired by the worldwide deluge. But the new theory, advanced in
the latest issue of the journal Current Anthropology by University of
Birmingham archeologist Jeffrey Rose, offers the clearest picture yet of
what may have been lost at the Middle East nexus of human civilization
when Canada's super-sized Lake Agassiz – a remnant of which is today's
Lake Winnipeg – suddenly burst its banks 8,000 years ago.

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