I'm thinking of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
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.
Looks interesting, but I’m running out of gas and have to crash. Thanks for all those links!
So the short & skinny is: global warming is true?
Anything that separates you from France might not be a bad thing. LOL
Was there looting?
I'm thinking of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
I also believe the Grand Canyon was formed quickly by a draining lake that left us the Salt Flats. It was humorous to read how puzzled the scientists were after Mt St Helens when they discovered canyons that were eroded by melting ice and drained lakes that they claimed would have taken millions of years to form by rain and weather.
This stuff is fun to read, but hang around awhile and they will change it. It mostly proves they KNOW nothing, but speculate on everything.
All kinds of oceanic fossils in Oklahoma and Nebraska...evidence of a tremendous flood? Naw. /sarcasm
Why would the water drain out and leave the salt behind? Salt is formed as an evaporate.
“It was humorous to read how puzzled the scientists were after Mt St Helens when they discovered canyons that were eroded by melting ice and drained lakes that they claimed would have taken millions of years to form by rain and weather.”
Can you point me in the direction of information like this? (From someone reputable, of course.)
As far as the Mt St Helens story, it was on Discovery TV awhile back and in a magazine( I think put out by Discovery channel) It was on a table in a doctors office.. They were going to follow some scientists for years that wanted to study the recovery of the area after the eruption. They were talking about years of study after such total destruction. The rivers were gone or re routed, lakes were dead, all wildlife was gone, no vegetation for them to eat. After 9 months, there were fish in the lake, elk and deer eating small green shoots coming out of the ashes, and recovery was well on its way. The government grants were barely used, and they were going to have to go home as their work was coming to an end. Nature had cleaned itself up and renewed itself. All the predictions, and I mean ALL, were wrong. Even the water Ph was almost back to normal in a year or so. I have to admit, the pictures they took when they first got there were pretty bleak, but it was totally different in about a year.
Yet more evidence that the world was destroyed by a flood.
You wouldn’t necessarily need a large land rim (or any at all as far as I can tell) as the lake was ice dammed by a massive ice sheet. And besides, even if there was a rim, depending on how thick, it could have easily broken under pressure from the melted ice that went on to form the North Sea. And don’t forget about all the erosion that would have taken place upstream of the original breach/spillway. This probably would have made any rim even more unstable.
Example:
It is noteworthy that not only did erosion occur in the spillway below the dam, but above the dam as well (Figure 2). In the approach channel above the spillway dam, valley sediment fill and the top layer of shale (Holmesville Shale) were removed to expose and erode the Fort Riley Limestone.
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/31/31_2b/31_2b.html
This one occurred before God created the Earth, according to the Bible.
==BTW, how big do you suppose a lake would need to be to eat through through a billion layers of solid rock?
As Chuckles points out, if the flood was massive enough, it wouldn’t take much time at all. Read the following carefully, the evidence for the rapid formation of the Grand Canyon is overwhelming.
http://www.detectingdesign.com/geologiccolumn.html
==This one occurred before God created the Earth, according to the Bible.
No, it occured before God created the Earth, according to man. Big difference.
Belerian, atalante—(g)
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