Undoubtedly, the “springs of the great deep bursting forth” in Genesis 7:11 (some translations read “the foundations of the deep were broken up”) refers to subterranean water sources. But it also probably refers to the spewing forth of volcanic magma and lava from underneath the Earth’s crust through fractures and fissures. It is believed that during the year of the Flood, and even hundreds of years after, thousands of volcanoes around the world were erupting. As the lava spilled out upon the earth’s