Where did the water go? The face of the earth is 80% water. And a whole lot more is found within the mantle of the earth.
National Geographic wrote ( http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0307_0307_waterworld.html ) that “more water probably exists deep within the Earth than is present on Earth’s surface — as much as five times more.” Whew!
If you read Scripture, you’ll see what happened. Before the flood, there was some water on the surface of the earth. But when the flood began, water poured out from the depths (from the mantle) and from some sort of cloud layer. As water came out from within the earth, areas over those caverns may have collapsed, leaving mountain ranges in their wake.
This really is a fascinating subject. Too often people simply dismiss thinking about it, making fun of it rather than considering that it may really be true.
I read a great book about this. The plates slid forming the mid atlantic ridge when they collided, this was when the bible said the water was unleashed from the depths of the earth, there is actually a lot of evidence supporting the flood, the vapor canapoy around the earth blocked the UV rays and helped those live very long lives pre-flood. I’ll look at the book I have at home, it’s very well done, an older book that looks at all the flood stories in all the ancient cultures and ties them to the biblical account, then explains I think in amazing detail how the oceans and rides and plates all fit the story very nicely.
Reminds me of that movie, Lost City Raiders I saw recently where the Vatican hired some treasure hunters to find an ancient scepter that was said would save the planet from glowbull (yes, I meant to spell it that way, as we have seen the light and now know it is a bunch of bull) warming which was making the waters rise. The scepter caused an explosion which created a fault and all of the water drained back into the earth.
Here is a movie clip, the good part starts at about 3:30: