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At that time period you look to archaeology and sedimentology, rather than geology, for evidence. These fields are pretty much unanimous that there was no global flood at that time.
Could you please back that up? What kind of evidence suggest that there was no global flood at that time?
Archaeology deals with these time periods all the time. I have personally conducted somewhere over 100 excavations and obtained nearly 600 radiocarbon dates. Maybe half of those have spanned that time period. I can detect no break at that time period in my own work, and my colleagues all over the world report similar results. There simply is no evidence of a global flood 4,350 years ago.
And the effects of a global flood would be
very obvious. What we see instead are continuities: continuities of local cultures, soil profiles, fauna and flora, etc.
Two examples of continuity in local cultures and genetics: from the west coast there are skeletons at 10,300 years and 5,300 years in age with direct mtDNA continuity to living individuals. There is no break in that mtDNA and replacement with Middle Eastern mtDNA.
Another example: dendrochronology (tree ring dating) has established a record going back some 12,600 years based on bristlecone pines from the White Mountains of Southern California. Annual rings are counted for each year back to that date. There is no break in this pattern 4,350 years ago, as would be necessary if there was a global flood at that date.