Rocks bear out story of China's ancient flood

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3086, 2016, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Legend has it that a great flood engulfed China 4000 years ago. Lasting more than 20 years, the deluge was finally tamed by the heroic efforts of Emperor Yu, whose Xia dynasty marked the birth of Chinese civilization. Some had dismissed the story as a myth, but they now have compelling evidence that the flood did happen at the time and place chronicled in the legend--about 1920 DC. Qinglong Wu and his team discovered ancient rocks and sedimentary formations in the Jishi Gorges in the upper reaches of the Yellow river, that could only have existed as a result of a cataclysmic flood