Comment on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty"

Chun Chang Huang; Yali Zhou; Yuzhu Zhang; Yongqiang Guo; Jiangli Pang; Qiang Zhou; Tao Liu; Xiaochun Zha

doi:10.1126/science.aak9657

Comment on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty"

Science. 2017 Mar 31;355(6332):1382. doi: 10.1126/science.aak9657.

Authors

Chun Chang Huang¹, Yali Zhou², Yuzhu Zhang³, Yongqiang Guo², Jiangli Pang², Qiang Zhou⁴, Tao Liu⁵, Xiaochun Zha²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China. cchuang@snnu.edu.cn.
² Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China.
³ College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710127, P.R. China.
⁴ School of Life and Geographic Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, Qinghai 810008, P.R. China.
⁵ Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0011, USA.

PMID: 28360293
DOI: 10.1126/science.aak9657

Abstract

Wu et al (Reports, 5 August 2016, p. 579) reported an enormous flood in the upper Yellow River that destroyed the Lajia Ruins. However, published research shows that the Ruins were destroyed at 3950 years before the present (B.P.) by earthquakes accompanied with mudflows, whereas the landslide-dammed lake terminated about 5650 years B.P. Various kinds of sediments with different ages were taken as evidence to verify an outburst flood.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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