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Re:Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core by venomsnake on Friday June 13, 2014 @03:17AM (#7887731)
The first thing I thought of too. A massive earthquake with juust the right condition could squeeze some water in the ocean. Or tsunami like event for a simpler explanation. Or something just big enough to make a good splash in some sea.

The flood myth is very persistent but we need to have in mind that humanity was tiny back then. So even a 2011 Japanese like tsunami could be the flood.

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Re:Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core by arethuza on Friday June 13, 2014 @08:19AM (#7888401)
There have been large tsunamis caused by underwater landslides - notably the Storegga Slide off Norway that inundated a lot of areas in what are now Scotland and Norway ~8000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide

The Storegga Slide might also have been, at least partly, responsible for the disappearance of Doggerland under the North Sea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

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