The Flood

Hmm. This all seems to be an extension, if you will, of Ryan and Pitman's book Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History. I read it several years ago - pretty plausible-sounding stuff. Not "hushed up" at all, either: it was a best-seller and National Geographic, I think it was, did an article and TV show on it. And the authors are oceanographer types.Though I have seen, somewhere, contrary opinions about the filling-up of the Black Sea.As to your question: I'd be astonished if big floods weren't recorded in mythology. I'd be more astonished by far if anyone could come up with a scrap of evidence for a truly global flood in the last half-billion years or so. But yes, if the Black Sea filled up like Ryan & Pittman postulate, the folks there would have thought "the whole world's drowning!"

Urban (or marine) legend. They're essentially at equilibrium.

Ryan and Pitman mention this - heavy, salty deep water goes to the Black Sea and less salty water rides the opposite direction back to the Med.

It's worth mention that the top of Mt Everest is indeed partly made up of calcium carbonate that was laid down under the sea. But it's metamorphosed partway to marble: the limestone was buried several miles beneath other rocks at some point, and stayed there long enough to recrystallize due to that heat and pressure. Since then, India crashing into Asia has unburied it.Not a fast process. Not compatible with a Flud timeline.

Go to Banff, Alberta when it's not under snow if you ever get the chance. Look at the mountains around the town. They are made of pancake-flat layers of sediment which a close look will tell were laid under water. They were laid down horizontal. They are tilted now.Conventional geology explains this. A one-year or hundred-year flood can't. The rocks cannot have solidified enough in a century or two to hold their shape with a 500-foot sheer break sitting up in the sky at one end. And the mountain never had to be "near water." The rocks formed under water. Later - MUCH later - they were uplifted to make a plain. Much later still, the plain was uplifted and squeezed from the edges to make mountains.

Three things. Those, and "don't bite your fingernails."

C'mon, Nosy! At least he's our troll!