The reason I raise this is that when the dam fails (not IF) it will be
interesting tosee how closely such a riverine flood would match the
Biblical account. Will the flood last one year? Will the flood carry
boats up onto a mountain? Will people be able to pole their way upstream
as Dick Fischer suggests happend in Mesopotamia? Will all evidence of
the flood sediment magically disappear as is claimed by some to have
happened to the flood sediment in Mesopotamia? Stand by and watch.
Probably within our lifetimes this dam will fail and the answers will
become clear.
More can be found on this at:
http://www.newscientist.com/cgi-bin/pageserver.cgi?/ns/19990619/newsstory1.html