Posted on 05/02/2014 9:17:08 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Just over 8,000 years ago a huge landslide occurred off the coast of Norway, known as the Storegga Slide.
The event created a catastrophic tsunami, with waves almost half as high as the Statue of Liberty, that battered Britain and other land masses. And now the most accurate computer model ever made of the tsunami suggests that it wiped out the remaining inhabitants of a set of low-lying landmass known as Doggerland off the coast of the UK.
A new model by researchers at Imperial College London has revealed the devastating effects of a tsunami caused by a landslide off the Norwegian coast over 8,000 years ago. It's believed the event would have devastated an area of low-lying land known as Doggerland that once connected Britain to mainland Europe
A new model by researchers at Imperial College London has revealed the devastating effects of a tsunami caused by a landslide off the Norwegian coast over 8,000 years ago. It's believed the event would have devastated an area of low-lying land known as Doggerland that once connected Britain to mainland Europe
The new study from researchers at Imperial College London is being presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna this week.
Using advanced computer modelling and paleobathymetry - the study of underwater depths through history - they describe how deadly the tsunami would have been.
And they conclude it would have spelled disaster for the remaining inhabitants of Doggerland.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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Interesting. There was once a confluence of the Rheine and the Thames.
If you look at the geological maps of prehistoric Doggerland in the article,it is obvious that the sea has been rising for the last 8,000 years or more. So much for the chicken little warmists who blame the rising seas on glowbull warming.
If you look at the geological maps of prehistoric Doggerland in the article,it is obvious that the sea has been rising for the last 8,000 years or more. So much for the chicken little warmists who blame the rising seas on glowbull warming.
Sh!t happens when you party naked.
Did the Doggers party in that manner.
That is, perhaps, the more pertinent question.
Oh yeah!, it was those people riding around in their SUVs 8,000 years ago that triggered the warming. If they had only driven Yugos none of this would have happened. (snicker)
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ooops, one more:
Undersea slide set off giant flow
BBC News | 22 November 2007 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 11/22/2007 6:56:49 PM by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1929418/posts
Not far from Star Carr, circa 8600 BC.
Doggerlanders blamed Bush for the Norwegian landslide...
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