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ity but only further, challenging field investigation will yield up the proof. I have presented the work of Dallas Abbott and her colleagues that indicates the possibility of a large bolide impact into the Indian Ocean capable of generating a tsunami of sufficient magnitude. A tsunami as envisioned would leave marine deposits in its wake. Such deposits found in the sediment of the Tigris Euphrates plain would be powerful confirmation that such an event actually took place.


While an event such as a 1 or 2 mile wide meteor striking the Indian Ocean in the vicinity of the pro- posed Burkle Crater (see Oracle, March, 2016) would undoubtedly generate tremendous destruction in the region, would it be of a magnitude sufficient to spawn legends of world destroying floods among Eskimos in the Bering Straits or Native American tribes from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, or the Mayans of Central America, or divergent indigenous peoples from Amazonia to Siberia, amongst numerous others? It turns out that an enormous amount of detailed infor- mation can be extracted from the various tales, legends and myths that constitute the legacy of ancient times when considered in the light of modern knowledge of the planetary and astronomical environments.


At present only a handful of researchers are fully cog- nizant of the profound and far-reaching implications of the convergence of mythology, geology, archaeology and history that is now underway.


I have been discussing a phenomenon that I have referred to as time transgressive juxtaposition. We are seeing the possibility of a disastrous modern flood in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, a region which spawned legends of a great world destroying deluge that have been preserved in the traditions of Christians and Jews, Muslims, the ancient Babylonians, the Greeks, and numerous others. If you have been keeping up with these monthly contributions you know that compelling geological evidence exists for the reality of a great diluvial event in the very region of the world from whence these traditions arose. You will also know that the most likely trigger for this event was cosmic in origin.


Turning now to the other side of the world we find another example of this juxtaposition of ancient and modern events involving large floods. Very few Americans remember that 40 years ago this month, in June of 1976, there was a major dam failure and sub- sequent flood in the United States. This was the Teton Dam disaster that occurred with the failure of a newly constructed earth fill dam built in the headwaters of the Teton River, a tributary of the Snake River in east- ern Idaho. The dam, 305 feet in height and 3200 feet in width at its crest, failed as its reservoir was being filled for the first time. The ensuing flood is a truly remarkable story for many reasons and I will elaborate on some of the details next month. Suffice it to say for now that the flood discharge just below the dam break


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out point was on the order of 2 million cubic feet per second. The largest flood of record on the Teton River was measured at 7000 cubic feet per second, which means that just below the dam breach the flow was 285 times greater. But, paralleling the story from the Middle East and the potential Mosul Dam failure, there was a great natural flood that occurred in ancient times in the very same region as the Teton Dam flood, a flood of even greater magnitude. At the end of the last ice age there was a sedimentary rock dam in a mountain pass in northern Utah. Behind this dam lay massive Lake Bonneville, a lake that was more of an inland sea than a lake. Modern day Great Salt Lake is a diminutive rem- nant of this mighty ancient lake. At some point as the ice age came to its violent end, this dam gave way and a 300 foot wall of water spilled over into the Snake River plain. This flow was at least 20 times greater than the peak flow of the Teton Dam flood, but unlike the Teton flood whose peak discharge was only sustained for sev- eral miles, this flood tore across more than a thousand miles of southern Idaho with no diminution in power, with sustained discharges approaching 40 million cubic feet per second. To the story of these two floods I will return next month.


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