Jishi Gorge outburst flood

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c. 1920 BC · Jishi Gorge, Yellow River · Asia · Nature

A Yellow River megaflood that may lie behind China's flood myth

Geologists found traces of a catastrophic Yellow River flood, dated to about 1920 BC, when a landslide dam burst. Some scholars see it as the origin of the legend of the Great Flood and Yu the Great; others dispute the link.

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