Dinosaurs and Man

[Jackalope]

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This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth's water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant..."

Tell me again about all that water that shot out of the ground, xtian. Still dying to know where it all went.

Providing that I haven't bungled the math, with the earth having a surface area of ~510 km^3, that means there's enough water (from all terrestrial sources) to cover the entire surface area of the earth to a depth of about 2700 meters.

That's assuming of course, that the surface of the earth is uniformly at sea level. Which it isn't - 71% of the planet is covered by oceans with an average depth of ~3900 meters.

There isn't anywhere near enough water on earth to get the job done.

Cue the ad hoc explanations in 1.... 2..... 3.....