title: Comment on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty".
abstract: Wuet 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China. cchuang@snnu.edu.cn.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0011, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, P.R. China.
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