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Is there any evidence of a global flood being caused 12,000 years ago by glaciers?

I asked this question in the geology section, but so far no answers. Someone has made this claim and I don't know of any evidence to support his claim. Am I missing something? Please provide sources if you can. Thanks!

Update:

HuCipher: Yes, I know. That is the Black Sea Deluge. But that isn't the same time period and wasn't caused by glaciers. But thanks!

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  • Zvi
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Global - no.

    Massive - as in big enough to create the Black Sea - yes.

  • 8 years ago

    No.

    There is no evidence of a global flood at any time in the past.

    There were a number of large glacial floods that occurred in various places over the world around the end of the last Ice Age, but none of them were more extensive several hundred miles across.

    In fact, some of the largest known happened in North America. The three biggest were Lake Missoula, Lake Agassiz (which helped form the Great Lakes) and Lake Bonneville (the remnants of which include the Great Salt Lake).

    But also note that around the same time, as the glaciers melted, sea levels worldwide increased by more than 400 feet. But that was a relatively slow process, lasting at least generations. While the others (similar to the Black Sea deluge) happened over a period of days to months. And they were the result of accumulated melt water draining rapidly, not of rapid accumulation.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Not global but there is evidence that supports a theory that Mediterranean swelled flooding the levant(middle east area) and left the Black sea behind

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    There is plenty of evidence for this. The last ice age ended about 10,000 BCE. For 100,000 years northern Europe lay under kilometre thick ice sheets. Where I live in England is where the Arctic ice sheet ended. It's easy to tell which parts of England were covered in ice and which parts weren't. The melting of all that ice would have caused sea levels to rise dramatically and drown many cities. Humans just like us existed for 100,000 years before the last ice age struck. Who knows what great civilisations grew and perished?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yup.. The North Sea, The Med and the Black Sea

  • 8 years ago

    No and there wouldn't be. The glaciers didn't cover the globe. Also they melted very slowly, not all at once. There was never any flooding caused by them.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No evidence of a global flood ever.

    None.

    Thanks.

    ==

    >Massive - as in big enough to create the Black Sea - yes.

    Why don't you read your own goddam link. Idiot.

  • 8 years ago

    There is no evidence that there has ever been a global flood.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    No. The geology section ignored you because you are a moron

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No. Otherwise all humans would be dead.

    Source(s): Geology student
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