The next stage of the deluge, brought about by the heavy rains worsens the catastrophe. He holds that the evidence is consistent with the deluge accounts preserved throughout diverse nations and peoples of the earth. Based on carbon-14 dating and the claims of Plato that the flood took place 9,000 years before his day, Emiliani gives a date which is highly inconsistent with Genesis, but consistent with Plato. He holds that the flood took place 11,500 years ago. He observes that the cultural memory of this great geophysical disaster agrees with the best scientific data.
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They are carried counter-clockwise towards Iceland by an undersea river twenty times greater in volume than all the surface rivers. Briefly they surface near Iceland. The tropical waters steam off into the dry frigid air, warming northern Europe with the power equivalent of one million 600-megawatt electric power stations. From here their course takes them through every ocean basin on earth until they return to Nigeria. The result was superflooding.