Coral links ice to ancient ‘mega flood’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2866086/posts
“Coral off Tahiti has linked the collapse of massive ice sheets 14,600 years ago to a dramatic and rapid rise in global sea-levels of around 14 metres.”
“Previous research could not accurately date the sea-level rise but now an Aix-Marseille University-led team, including Oxford University scientists Alex Thomas and Gideon Henderson, has confirmed that the event occurred 14,650-14,310 years ago at the same time as a period of rapid climate change known as the Bølling warming.”
This may have caused the 'silt layer' (from rapid ocean water rising) that the Soviet engineers found when they were building the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
The Nile Valley must have looked like the Grand Canyon during the Ice Age.