As the earth tipped on its axis the north would have experience instant winter. In the north, the rising water would have mixed with dirt, the mammoths, seeking higher ground, sank in the gooey cold mass and everything froze.
How would the specific heat of water enter this idea?
Kland you have much more of a scientific mind than I have, so not sure how to answer that question.
But I would suppose it depended on where the water was coming from?
Of course if it were swirling in from the equator regions the water temperature would over ride the sudden drop in air temperature.
But since this probably happened near the beginning of the 40 days and nights, there wouldn't have been water swirling in from the equator regions -- there would be only a lot of half frozen rain pouring down?
And also different areas would have had different conditions.
Remember they have been found with buttercups in their stomachs-- that doesn't sound like they were in snow.
Why would snow preclude buttercups in their mouths/stomachs?
I guess I assumed it would because where I live, there is snow and freezing cold temperatures and NO buttercups anywhere. Buttercups are rather delicate and decay rather quickly when things start getting cold.
Somehow my idea of a fast coming ice age, is still not instantly. The cold would have killed the vegetation and ice covered the ground sometime before the mammoths would have succumbed to it's deadly chill.
[quote] I am of the opinion that the flood totally changed the topography of the planet.[quote]
I would agree, yet some areas seem to have been changed far more than other areas depending on the breaking apart of the earth's crust and mountains being forced up, while other areas didn't break up and no mountains were created.
(My unscientific thoughts)
Though I do find the subject interesting -- often wonder just what it was like back then.
An interesting thought about the earth tilting. Why couldn't it be tilted all the time? Wouldn't the upper water canopy equalize the temperatures? What would a flood tilting of the earth mean to the moon people?
Moon people????
Did the gravity shift between moon and earth depopulated the moon???
OK -- You probably had something quite different in mind.
I'm not sure how a sudden tilt of the earth would have affected the moon. A lot of theories out there -- even one where they said the moon was once closer to the earth, crashed into the earth then bounced off to its present location, and all this tilt and moon crashing was caused by an unknown planet that came circling rather close to earth. But all that is theory --
The earths tilt is not only associated with the seasons, but also with the variable length of day and night. Would day and night have been more regular in an "untilted" earth?
Even the "water canopy" is not really understood. Would it have hidden the stars from view? --