Answer for essay question 22 A complete answer includes all of these points. A minimal answer does not give all the details of each point:
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Warm oceans directly after the flood, provided a nice climate in the northern regions.
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Animals invaded the Arctic prairie habitat that formed there around the Arctic Circle in the northern parts of Alaska and Siberia and Europe.
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It was the warmth of the ocean left over from the food had caused the warm habitat and ultimately that's what gave rise to Ice Age. The Ice Age is the time when the oceans cooled and the glaciers formed in the northern areas.
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As the Ice Age developed in the following few hundred years after the flood, snow and ice accumulated (first in the central portion of the continents to the south). Which trapped the mammoths along the margin of the Arctic Ocean on the northern boundary of these continents.
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When the Arctic Ocean finally froze, the climate probably changed very rapidly, freezing the mammoths as we find them today.
Summary Mammoths that came through the flood. They repopulated (the following several hundred years after the flood), were trapped in the northern portions of the continents, and then were frozen as the Arctic Ocean in turn cool and finally froze.
The data on the mammoth-bearing silt layers in Alaska fit nicely with the idea of animals surviving after the flood. And it goes nicely with the post flood rapid Ice Age.
Sources: The Modern Creation Trilogy, Volume 2, Science and Creation Chapters 11
Current Research—Science, Scripture & Salvation: A Creation Radio Journal broadcast on mammoth fossils
