In a message dated 3/3/2006 10:36:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
glennmorton@entouch.net writes:
"Pleistocene glacial outburst floods were released from ice-
dammed lakes of the Altay Mountains, south-central Siberia.
The Kuray-Chuja lake system yielded peak floods in excess
of 1 x 106 m3 s-1 and as great as 18 x 106 m3 s-1. The
phenomenally high bed shear stresses and stream powers
generated in these flows produced a main-channel, coarse-
grained facies of coarse gravel in (1) foreset-bedded bars
as much as 200 m high and several kilometers long, and (2)
degradational, boulder-capped river terraces. Giant current
ripples, 50 to 150 m in spacing, composed of pebble and
cobble gravel, are locally abundant. The whole sedimentary
assemblage is very similar to that of the Channeled
Scabland, produced by the Pleistocene Missoula Floods of
western North America." ~ A. N. Rudoy and V. R. Baker,
"Sedimentary Effects of Cataclysmic Later Pleistocene
Glacial Outburst Flooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia,"
Sedimentary Geology, 85(1993:53-62, p. 53
This has absolutely no relationship to Noah's flood. A flood of this
magnitude would have destroyed the ark.
Phil
Received on Sat Mar 4 01:39:19 2006
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