glaciers and the flood

At the very least, it seems that all that seawater should have left a layer or two with noticeable salinity in a least a couple of the dozen or three glaciers that have been cored around the world.....

some guy, you might take a look at R.B. Alley's book The Two-Mile Time Machine. He's one of the leading ice-core researchers, and appears to know what he's talking about: he helped find volcanic ash debris from volcanic eruptions known to have occurred in AD 1783 and AD 79 in ice cores in central Greenland. They are the correct number of layers down, within less than 1% error. The 1783 eruption left ash, chemically matched with ash recovered at the volcano itself, 72 meters from surface.The snowfall each year is much greater along the coast, where the Lost Squadron was buried, than along the central "spine" of Greenland where the cores were drilled. There is quite a bit of data that calibrates not only the annual layers in Greenland ice sheets, but also a couple of dozen other ice sheets from around the world. And besides the calibration, over 10,000 layers have actually been counted, one by one, in Greenland.

After some exhaustive Googling, partly in Danish, I have found that the average annual snowfall along the SE coast of Greenland ranges from about 150 cm (as water - much more as depth of snow) to 247 cm. Compare 25 cm at Summit, where the GRIP and GISP2 cores were drilled. That's 6 to 10 times as much.

The best I can guess from what I've found, the Lost Squadron was near Dannebrog Island, which is at 39.6 deg west / 65.3 north. That's in the heaviest contour of snowfall on the maps you provided. The GISP2 site says they get 0.25 meter of precip per year.

And my post 16 above documents as much as 2.5 meters of precipitation per year there on the eastern coast, and only .25 meter average near Summit, where the cores were taken. Apparently it's not reaching much at all - the volcanic ash layer from the Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD was at the proper number of layers down to better than 0.5%.

And, for that matter, C-14 dates on leaves and insect parts actually contained in the individually counted layers in cores from Lake Suigetsu in Japan correlate with these same records. And they were counted back to 38,000 years ago, extrapolated to 45,000. Very tough for Mr Gish to explain, I'll bet....Kitigawa and van der Plicht, Science, vol 279, pp 1187-1190, (1998). It's free online if you register at Science | AAAS

Everything in Science from 1996 (?) to a year before today's date is free at their website with registration: Science | AAASYou can kill a great deal of time there if you're suitably motivated.

My favorite but OT part of that link: ROFL. "Only six days' rain to flood the Earth? That's absurd! It'd take at least forty!"Oy, weh!