He said homo...
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.
He said homo...
A lake can be broad and hold lots of water and a lake's edge does not have to be a prominent ridge to exist - just enough to keep the water in. After all the Gulf of Mexico is not contained to the North by a ridge, but merely a land mass which is above sea level.
if there was not enough water level differential [shallow lake with low shores as measured from the lake bottom], the water would drain slowly [not in 24 hours] - it would be nowhere near causing catastrophic erosion. And the nothern rim, or whatever remains of it, should still exist, even if under water.
Your alternative is exactly what? That {poof} something happened by a process that no one knows about?
That {poof} there was a talking snake? Never one seen ever since.
I agree with you that it is impossible to know how language started, but it seems to me understandable in terms of development of brain capacity, use of symbols, evolutionary development of the vocalization apparatus in our throats, and an obvious benefit for early humans in family/ tribal societies. It is interesting that writing is only about 8,000 years old.
The sudden flush of water through the channel, was mentioned years ago in "Sarum".
Why are kangaroos native to Australia, and not anywhere else?
G-d must have created them, and then put them there, which is both special creation and special delivery.
Darwin's experiments on the transmission of various forms of life by various means were extensive, though of course, not exhaustive.
Since many forms of life are common between Europe and Britain, one would expect that the sea barriers between them was recent.
A simple look at the sea floor shows great furrowing in the channel, especially in the narrows.
It was operated by that little known ancestral offshoot, Homo rovicus.
People who can only imagine one way to spell, are linguistically challenged.
There is geological evidence that prehistoric Lake Bonneville drained north in a cataclysmic flood into the Snake River, via Cache Valley and the Portneuf Gap.
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The account does not make sense.
I learned, right here on FreeRepublic, that the earth is only 6000 years ago. /s
Not gonna get too much agreement here on that one...there are lots of FReepers in; Idaho, Montana, Ohio, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, New mexico, Utah, both Dakotas, Michigan (presumably the epicenter), and the other non coastal states (I'm assuming also that Washington and Oregon are part of 'greater California').
Probably better to hold out for an earthquake on one side and advancing glaciation on the other.
I'd need to check the dates, but it could have melted. Ice bound lakes were present in the US as well, just in the last glacial epoch, check out Lake Agassiz or Lake Souris in North Dakota. The ice sheet changed the course of the Missouri as well.
Only relatively small relief beach ridges or wave cut terraces would have survived any shoreline on land, and those would be at an altitude reflecting the water level in the lake. That should be verifiable if it existed.
Still they won't believe it.
Evidence doesn't matter to them.
Those cliffs looked much different when I saw them: It was from the windows of a Chinook Helicopter, and they shook around alot! :-)
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