[Europan Ocean (OP)]

There are stories among the ancients of floods. Looking at wildlife in Australia and Europe compared, for many thousands of years, they don't have a common origin. There is the account of polar ice cap melting thousands of years ago, which could have been rapid, and led to flooding. But the idea the mountain tops were covered as in Genesis is seems unlikely. A mixture of rain and ice melts may have made local floods. Woolly Mammoths are still found in polar ice. There must have been a big melt before the freezing encroached back on them?

[alancalverd]

 

Woolly Mammoths are still found in polar ice. There must have been a big melt before the freezing encroached back on them?

Beware of quoting facts and asking obvious questions. You will be castigated and labelled as a "denier" by the Climate Inquisition.

Just as The Flood was caused by Sin, so Global Warming is caused by anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Woolly mammoths, subglacial vegetation, and suchlike, were put there last Tuesday by Satan to confuse you.

[Colin2B]

There must have been a big melt before the freezing encroached back on them?

Not necessarily. I start to put on extra woolies well before the snows.
Easy even in uk winter to be caught in a sudden snow squall and get frozen to death, happen most years.
That’s not to say there wasn’t a big melt, just that it’s not necessary for your frozen woolly.

I suspect that the flood stories are so widespread because in early times many people didn’t travel far and so a local flood might seem to cover the whole world. Add in a bit (or a lot) of exaggeration and hills become mountains. Also remember that old folks tend to tell some pretty tall stories about what it was like back in the day!

[alancalverd]

Easy even in uk winter to be caught in a sudden snow squall and get frozen to death, happen most years.

But the snow usually melts in spring, revealing the corpses, and nobody thinks it odd. Indeed we would think your fate exceptional if we found you in the street even a few days later. The fact that mammoths seem to have been under the ice for thousands of years shows that it was once at least as warm there as it is today, and the long intervening cold period was exceptional.

[Petrochemicals]

There could have been glacial outflows, perhaps the hymalayas where hit by an earthquake during the melt, perhaps something like a volcano under the ice sheet, raising the water level enough to envelop flat or gently sloping terrain like norfolk  I doubt very much that the entire seal level rise happened in 1 day 1 month or 1 year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_lake_outburst_flood

[Zer0]

I can probably Help in activating Spell Checker or Auto Correct...
But I'm unaware of the input system used to type.

PCs, Laptops & Mobiles...all have the function inbuilt.
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[vhfpmr]

Otzi disappeared into the ice then reappeared again long after the last ice age ended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
So did Stardust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident

[Foregly]

The Legend of the Flood is a tale about a huge flood and the survival of the characters, much like similar tales from many other cultures.