Posted on 12/02/2009 9:36:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv
An Anglo-French study has revealed that long before the English Channel there was a giant river which ran south from an area of the North Sea. Previous research found that 500,000 years ago a range of low hills connected Britain to Europe between the Weald in South-East England and Artois in northern France. But during a series of ice ages beginning 450,000 years ago huge ice sheets covered much of northern Europe, trapping a portion of the North Sea the size of East Anglia. The great rivers of Europe poured into this lake at the southern end of the North Sea. To the north it was bordered by glaciers and to the south by the low-lying land mass connecting Britain to France. Eventually it overflowed, like a huge bath, causing a vast river -- named the 'Fleuve Manche -- to tumble down towards the Atlantic Ocean gouging through the chalky rock as it went. The force of this 'megaflood' carved so deeply into the land between Britain and France that when the ice melted and sea levels rose, water covered the area, cutting Britain off. And so the 'Fleuve Manche' became 'La Manche' -- the French word for 'sleeve' that describes the English Channel.
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And the Pacific NW ‘scab lands”. Snake River Canyon.
So, so many more.
Also, people need to look at the Missouri/Mississippi system, and why it now flows south instead of east.
Conspiracy theory: The Leftists/Greens/AGWers want us to act drastically “to reverse global warming” in hopes that it will trigger another ice age, giving them a twofer: reduced world population; and, the re-formation of the Bearing Land Bridge, giving the Commies a fast track to march armies into the U.S.!
It took decades for the guy who identified the catastrophic origin for the channeled scablands to be recognized; despite the “oh, we agreed all along” liars, he pounded his head against a wall for (what should have been) the best years of his career. He was lucky to live such a nice long life in order to not be given phony postmortem recognition.
Your *conspiracy theory*, considering current events, is well founded. Especially the population reduction part.
It’s a Socialist wet dream.
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