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Flood Made Britain An Island 'In 24 Hours'
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9-25-2006 | Tim Hall

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 09/24/2006 6:00:48 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 09/24/2006 6:01:15 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Must be Global Warming! It's all Bush's fault!


3 posted on 09/24/2006 6:04:02 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian ("Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." -- Bugs Bunny)
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To: blam

Lucky blokes!


4 posted on 09/24/2006 6:04:20 PM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: blam
Now that's climate change!
5 posted on 09/24/2006 6:04:46 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You know something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?)
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To: blam

Where was FEMA?


6 posted on 09/24/2006 6:04:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: blam

Noah comes to mind.


7 posted on 09/24/2006 6:04:59 PM PDT by camas
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To: blam

Thank God for this flood.....


8 posted on 09/24/2006 6:05:15 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: blam

So they had a problem with floods runnig uphill in those days? Most likely, the ground sank.


9 posted on 09/24/2006 6:06:54 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: blam

When the giant ice dams of the last ice age let go in north america, very similar things happened (without creating any islands) including washing away 1/2 of a mountain range in the pacific north west, and carving the St Lawrence river valley


10 posted on 09/24/2006 6:07:12 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: blam

How fortuitous, except for those living in the present-day English Channel.


11 posted on 09/24/2006 6:07:15 PM PDT by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: blam
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.

Current textbooks are often wrong in these details. The Theory of Evolution used to depend on small changes over many millions of years. But, when evidence of rapid change was found, the concept of puncturated equilibrium was introduced. A lot of stuff that appeared to require "a long process" now appears to have happened quite quickly indeed.

12 posted on 09/24/2006 6:10:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: blam

So...why isn't the grand canyon the nearest parralell?


13 posted on 09/24/2006 6:10:11 PM PDT by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: blam

Could that possibly imply a biblical style flood?

Nah, that's all fantasy. </sarcasm>


14 posted on 09/24/2006 6:11:14 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Celtjew Libertarian

I wasn't aware the Rove weather machine was operational back then.


15 posted on 09/24/2006 6:12:07 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: blam

How did Bush start melting the polar caps so long ago?

I'll bet that women and children were harmed the most.


16 posted on 09/24/2006 6:12:52 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: blam

Is it wrong to hope for the same thing to happen to California and the New England States?


17 posted on 09/24/2006 6:14:10 PM PDT by bw17
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To: bw17

The latter, yeah.


18 posted on 09/24/2006 6:21:07 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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19 posted on 09/24/2006 6:22:09 PM PDT by 1ofmanyfree ((No jobs, licenses,mortgages,bank accounts or amnesty for any illegal alien criminals ! ))
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To: patton

Vertical walls of Marble Canyon. No rubble lying at the low valley floor built up to a height one would expect from eons of erosion over time. Evidence of a large inland sea in southern Utah. Why would anybody believe that the Grand Canyon was a cataclysmic flood instead of a gradual slow erosion process?


20 posted on 09/24/2006 6:27:35 PM PDT by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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