Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History (Record no. 18096)
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| fixed length control field | 01507nam a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780684859200 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 43451393 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BS658 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 930.2 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | William Ryan |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Simon & Schuster |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea. Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans. Sophisticated dating techniques confirmed that 7,600 years ago the mounting seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the salt water of the Mediterranean had poured into the lake with unimaginable force, racing over beaches and up rivers, destroying or chasing all life before it. The rim of the lake, which had served as an oasis, a Garden of Eden for farms and villages in a vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people fled, dispersing their languages, genes, and memories. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ancient History |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Walter Pitman |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/30/2023 | 930.2 RYAN | 64655 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |