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The moment Britain became an island
BBC News Magazine ^
| Monday, February 14, 2011
| Megan Lane
Posted on 02/14/2011 6:31:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The coastline and landscape of what would become modern Britain began to emerge at the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago.
What had been a cold, dry tundra on the north-western edge of Europe grew warmer and wetter as the ice caps melted. The Irish Sea, North Sea and the Channel were all dry land, albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose.
But it wasn't until 6,100BC that Britain broke free of mainland Europe for good, during the Mesolithic period -- the Middle Stone Age.
It is thought a landslide in Norway triggered one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth, when a landlocked sea in the Norwegian trench burst its banks.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: atlantis; britishisles; catastrophism; dietandcuisine; doggerland; godsgravesglyphs; mesolithic; storegga; storeggaslide; tsunami; tsunamis; unitedkingdom
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"In Bray, on the east coast of Ireland, there are fossilised trees on the beach, lying where they first grew 8,000 years ago. There are drowned forests off Dorset, Wales and the Isle of Wight. That's because back then, the Irish Sea, North Sea and the Channel were all dry land. When the great melt came, and the seas gradually rose by 300 feet, we were cut off from mainland Europe for good."
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:31:39 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Blame AGW — Al Gore was right even back then!
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:32:51 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
These kinds of things happen from time to time, usually on a smaller scale:
submerged forests can happen other ways too:
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:35:00 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:35:00 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:37:54 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:39:16 PM PST
by
americanophile
("The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon." - George Washington)
To: SunkenCiv
Stephen Oppenheimer had a de-linking moment for the Scots and the Finns similar to this in his book, "Origins Of The British".
He says that the people on either side are so closely related genetically that they must have been one big family before the split
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:44:30 PM PST
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
Had Hitler started 8000 years earlier he would have conquered all of Europe.
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:45:49 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
Had Hitler started 8000 years earlier he would have conquered all of Europe.If Hitler would have started five years later he would have conquered the WORLD.
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:50:02 PM PST
by
bigheadfred
(THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh. I thought this was going to be about multiculturalism.
But hey! Maybe Norway could come up with another mega tsunami generating event that would wipe the slate clean.
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posted on
02/14/2011 6:54:03 PM PST
by
bigheadfred
(THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:02:35 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:18:16 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(FAIR DINKUM!)
To: freedumb2003
I’ll bet that the Druids had a hand in this, the bastards.
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:24:33 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: SunkenCiv
Still randy.
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:36:54 PM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: kbennkc
Barbara Bach -- wasn't she in
The Spy Who Loved Me ?
Cheers!
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:41:32 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve always thought that if there’s any truth to the legend of Atlantis it’s probably related to this event. At least the location fits Plato’s description and there’s clear evidence the now-inundated land was populated. There had been free movement across what is now the English Channel for thousands of years prior to the Big Melt.
To: grey_whiskers
Barbara Bach -- wasn't she in The Spy Who Loved Me ? Yep. I think her husband, shown with her above, was a musician.
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:45:40 PM PST
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Bray brings back memories of growing up,had so much fun in the arcades.
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posted on
02/14/2011 7:50:13 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: bigheadfred
“Had Hitler started 8000 years earlier he would have conquered all of Europe.
If Hitler would have started five years later he would have conquered the WORLD.”
If the Unites States hadn’t gotten involved Hitler would have done the job in about two years.
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posted on
02/14/2011 8:00:28 PM PST
by
ANGGAPO
(Layte Gulf Beach Club)
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