Flood geology (additional info and facts about Flood geology) holds that a global flood actually occurred, as recorded in Genesis, and that many geological formations of today, such as submarine river canyon extensions, layered fossil fuel deposits, fossil layers, and layered sedimentary strata are best explained in terms of a global flood in the recent past.
This is rejected by mainstream geology which is to say, virtually the entire scientific discipline which holds that the Earth is extremely ancient, that geological formations were created over many millions of years and that there was no Great Flood. Some have suggested that the Biblical account may be a folk memory of local floods that affected the
Persian Gulf (A shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula; the Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world) or
Black Sea (A sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans) regions in prehistoric times. The concept of flood geology was abandoned as a serious scientific hypothesis in the mid-19th century following advances in scientific understanding of geological processes, though it is still promoted (mostly in the
United States (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) ) by some
Biblical literalist (additional info and facts about Biblical literalist) s.
