Conclusion and Perspectives

The preceding chapters have shown how diverse the history of floods on Earth is. On the one hand, the presentations touched on the classification of current flood dimensions in the historical context and, on the other hand, also listed the attempts to locate the oldest flood description ever using the example of the Flood myth. In the geological record, numerous large megafloods occurred in Pleistocene times and exceed recent events by several magnitudes. First flood traces date back up to billion of years.