Henry J
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Re "One of the most important questions to be answered before we can answer that question is what I've been asking you for months: were the "floodwaters" freshwater, or seawater? What could have survived the "flood" not being on the ark is critically dependent on this one parameter,"
I'm not so sure that the salinity parameter would matter to all that many species in the long run - looks to me like most of them would be cut off from their food supply, or would depend on a food chain containing something else that would be cut off from its food supply.
Also anything that can't procreate in open water wouldn't have a next generation, food or no food, salt or no salt.
Btw, would a massive flood cause any change in the O2 or CO2 content of the water?
(This question is of course ignoring the temperature changes that I gather would most likely make chemical changes irrelevant anyway, but never mind that.)
Henry
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