Posted on 09/24/2006 6:00:46 PM PDT by blam
Flood made Britain into an island 'in 24 hours'
By Tim Hall
(Filed: 25/09/2006)
Britain may have become an island after a Biblical-style flood split it from Europe in less than 24 hours, according to new geological research.
The flood would have taken place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, sweeping away hills between Britain and what is now France.
The theory could rewrite British prehistory, as current text-books teach that Britain - once a peninsula of continental Europe - split from the great land mass after a long process of erosion and rises in sea levels.
However, surveys of the Channel bed using new sonar techniques have revealed the remains of a huge valley, running south-west from the Strait of Dover.
The sonar survey, led by Sanjeev Gupta, from Imperial College, London, uncovered deep bowls, scour marks and piles of rubble on the sea bed that may have been caused by a torrent of water.
Dr Gupta said in a paper published at an academic conference: "In places, this valley is more than seven miles wide and 170 ft deep, with vertical sides. Its nearest geological parallels are found not on Earth but in the monumental flood terrains of the planet Mars.
"This suggests the valley was created by a catastrophic flood following the breaching of the Dover Strait and the sudden release of water from a giant lake to the north."
According to Dr Gupta's theory, France and Britain would have been linked by a high ridge of chalk hills, running roughly between Dover and Calais. To the north would have been a freshwater lake, fed by rivers, and deepened over thousands of years.
The lake, hundreds of feet above sea level, finally overflowed the chalk ridge and swept down towards the Atlantic. The water washed away the soft chalk hills and left the British Isles a separate land mass.
Dr Gupta's work is outlined in his book Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain, to be published next week.
ADD: Whoever on FR suggested reading Sarum owes me the price of five Rutherford novels; there's still one more I want to buy.
(Thanks)
It would hold for a time — as that old VW bug ad said, “it definitely floats, but not indefinitely”. ;’) It seems like each year there is an explanation for how glaciation happens, but there isn’t any uniformitarian model which works.
“tinsel strength”
s/b?
“tensile strength”?
Wasn’t me. :’)
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Thanks! I followed that search link, and found out that it was discovered by one Dr. Tanenbaum.
you are ahead of the Wiki-Wacky-Pedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=tinsel+strength
THE NORTH SEA. From Earth in Upheaval.
The stormy North Sea, brodered by Scotland, England, the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, is a very recent basin. The geologists assume that the area was once before occupied by a sea, but that early in the Ice Age the detritus carried from Scotland and Scandinavia filled it, so that there was no sea left: it was all turned into land. The river Rhine flowed through this land and the Thames was its tributary; the mouth of the river was somewhere near Aberdeen.
In post-glacial times, so it assumed, in the Subboreal period, which began about 2000 years before the present era and endured until 800 BC., large parts of the area were added to the sea. The Atlantic Ocean sent its waters along the Scottish and Norwegian shores, and also through the Channel that had been formed only a short while before. Human artifacts and bones of land animals were dredged from the bottom of the North Sea; and along the shores of Scotland and England, as well as on the Dogger Bank in the middle of the sea, stumps of trees with their roots still in the ground were found.
Forty-five miles from the coast, from a depth of thirty-six metres, Norfolk fishermen drew up a spearhead carved from the antler of a deer, embedded in a block of peat. This artifact dates from the Mesolithic or early Neolithic Age and serves as one of many proofs that the area covered by the North Sea was a place of human habitation not many thousands of years ago...
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/earth/index.htm
When the Earth Nearly Died
Compelling Evidence of A Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC
(c) 1995 by By D S Allan and J B Delair. 386pp.
“Part Four is like the unravelling of a murder mystery: how could this catastrophic event of 11,500 years ago have come about? Some basic facts have to be explored: about Earth’s structure and magnetism; how polar shift or crustal displacement could occur; the nature of the solar system and the evidence for a planet having disappeared. Evidence for a cosmic upheaval having taken place at that time is considered, leading the authors to come to conclusions very different from Velikovsky’s - who studied similar evidence in his Worlds in Collision...”
(plagiarism?)
Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada? (More) (Carolina Bays)
4 pages of images, Carolina ‘bays’
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/recentcb.html
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/cbaymenu.html
Thanks, that ‘map’ is HUGE!
The Carolina ‘bays’ are discussed on the Thunderbolts Forum:
http://web4.ehost-services.com/rainbow11/tbolts/forum/phpBB/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=325
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3rqQnUCiWQo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7dbs5QAMOqc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WB_EKVWgbj8
you’re gunna love this...it’s quick!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c5ZVyhwdNWk
It doesn’t border on France.
Very interesting, thanks.
and then there are the 'trees' that show up in the darnest of places:
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