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The icecaps had been melting since about 13,000 BC, steadily raising sea levels worldwide and the middle-east was just emerging from a long climatic drought, 6200-5700 BC .
The most spectacular event of the 6th millennium BC was the catastrophic flooding of the (freshwater) Black Sea...
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Messinian flood
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Ancient Mediterranean flood mystery solved Research reveals details of a catastrophic flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years ago. Research has revealed details of the catastrophic Zanclean flood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea more than five million years...
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The Missoula Floods
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The Missoula Floods (also known as the Spokane Floods or the Bretz Floods) refer to the cataclysmic floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the last ice age. Read more T...
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Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat -- where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood -- in an appeal for action on...
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The 1607 Flood
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A repeat of the 1607 storm surge that caused severe flooding in south Wales and south west England 400 years ago would be the UK's costliest natural disaster, claims a new report. A risk management company has...
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a massive landslide on the ocean floor off Storegga, south-west Norway, triggered a 10-meter high tsunamis.
Radiocarbon dating of sediments taken from the coastline of eastern Scotland show that a giant wave flooded Scotland about 5,800 BC. At the time, Britain was joined to mainland Europe...
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13,350 years ago the glacial Lake Iroquois broke out from behind the Adirondack Mountains and the northern ice sheet.
It was three times the size of modern Lake Ontario.
As the natural ice dam collapsed, floodwaters rushed down the Hudson River Valley; past modern Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Sta...
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A catastrophic 'superflood' following the rupture of a massive glacier-dammed lake in Canada at the end of the Ice Age probably plunged the world into centuries of climatic chaos.
That single event was likely responsible for the most dramatic climate change of the last 10,000 years, accordin...
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Long before New York City was the Big Apple, or even New Amsterdam, a giant tsunami crashed ashore. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades that frame the Hudson River were whisper-quiet, the sandy beaches of Long Island and New Jersey empty, and Manhattan was still just an unbroken sylvan carpet. Then...
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Pakistani floods
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Death toll in Pakistani floods surges past 800 as rescuers struggle to reach the marooned Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhoea and other...
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The Burchardi Flood, (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) was a Storm tide that struck the North Sea coast of North Frisia and Dithmarschen on the night between the 11 and 12 October 1634. Read more
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