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| Colorado rockies, July 3 1976 - 10 in. rain in 90 minutes, drowned 139 ppl |
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Strait of Gibralter had been a dam (cut of from atlantic, high evaporation rates dried out lake)
-deposits filled with fossils above salt layer that show an ocean a mile deep (massive flooding of basin)
-dam must have ruptured and produced strait of gibralter |
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Noahs flood (global flood in human history)
-20,000 years ago earth had glacial maximum
-large lakes formed and glacial melting over next 15,000 years
-Large Caspian Lake, new Euxine Lake in W Eurasia drain into Mediterranean through the Sea or
Marmara and Dardanelles Outlet
-Lowering level left dam and Black Sea dried up a bit
-Sea levels rise higher than lakes, 5600 BC sea broke through dam at Bosporus
-poured in to black sea, adding salta water
-Flooded 150,000 square kilometers over a years, raising black sea 100m |
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May 31, 1889,
-30-40 foot wave down valley to Johnstown, 2200 drown (worst US flood loss), most serious flood in US history |
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October 9, 1963, -biggest failiure of human built dam (built 1960 in glacial valley)
-Plave River, drains to Adriatic north of Venice
-100m wave overtops dam, though dam holds up |
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October 9, 1963, biggest failiure of human built dam (built 1960 in glacial valley)
-Plave River, drains to Adriatic north of Venice
-100m wave overtops dam, though dam holds up |
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Yellow river flooded 1500 times in last 2500 years
-1938 Chinese blew 1/4 mile gap in levee-river to slow Japanese advance
-21,000 sq miles of farmland flooded, 1 million perished
-1642 Gen Gao Mingeng did same |
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