Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet,
Maybe there are several events connected - MY HYPOTHESIS STATES -
The Black Sea was created about 7500BC in and area that would have been very lush and and a heck of a great place to live.
The North Sea was created about the same time and would have been a lush landscape full of rivers and trees - heck of a place to live. Then there's the giant boulders found on the bottom of it with large deposits made from an enormous amount of water flowing into the Ocean. Supposedly,England was once a peninsula of land jutting out into the Atlantic and was carved out due to a 'biblical' sized flood.
I think these are related - Due to the retreat of the ice from the North of Europe, the weight was taken off of the north end of the Eurasian plates and caused some sort of elevation change that shifted water elsewhere.
It's possible that it was a chain-reaction of earthquakes, and as many of you know there were several meteor strikes in and around this same time frame, as well as several large volcanic eruptions. The meteorite strikes could have helped make the other events bigger and more powerful, even if they didn't happen immediately one after the other.The volcanoes and the meteorite strikes both happened in the vicinity of the Mediterranean.
One other VERY interesting scenario is this -
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FrozenMammoths6.html EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE. The author may or may not be right in his hypothesis, but one thing is ABSOLUTE - this is some form of major, recurring, earth event. It takes awhile to read all of it, so be prepared.
My point is this - these events seem to me to be linked, and this guy isn't just going there to see about 'Noah'. It isn't about 'Noah', it's about how and why these cataclysmic events happened to our ancestors. Something like this could happen again, and probably will.
I wish I was on that ship with them right now. This fellow and his crew are pioneers into uncharted archaeological and paleoclimatological waters. They get to see things that won't find room on the pages of 'Scientific American' or Archaeology
What an awesome job to have. How are the rest of you out there going to write or rewrite history? Started yet?
Yeah, sorry, Black sea, not North Sea, hadn't drank my morning coffee yet. What I was getting at is that between the end of the last ice age and about 7500BC there are many events that occurred that are similar in occurrence and, to me anyway, are related. There IS a connection, and time will show whether or not I'm right or wrong about it. The specifics are close to discovery, which fills me full of envy for those in the field around the world right now. History is truly in the making and most folks don't spend one waking moment a week thinking about it.