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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
KEYWORDS: 24; blacksea; blackseaflood; bloodbath; britain; catastrophism; crevo; doggerland; englishchannel; flood; godsgravesglyphs; grandcanyon; greatflood; hours; island; made; megaflood; noah; noahsflood; pasdecalais; straitsofdover; ukflood; unitedkingdom; weather
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To: blam
Homo Britannicus

He said homo...

41 posted on 09/24/2006 7:42:04 PM PDT by killjoy (Same Shirt, Different Day)
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To: GSlob

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.


42 posted on 09/24/2006 7:44:57 PM PDT by Socratic ( "Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied" - J.S. Mill)
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To: Socratic

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.


43 posted on 09/24/2006 7:49:40 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: ClearCase_guy
You're guessing, conjecturring, and supposing. And you're calling it science.

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.

44 posted on 09/24/2006 7:54:52 PM PDT by thomaswest (Thank God for Evolution.)
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To: blam
This will solidify British belief in its "manifeft deftiny" that it is an Island unto itself, and that an act of G_D created it over night.
45 posted on 09/24/2006 7:55:49 PM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: blam

The sudden flush of water through the channel, was mentioned years ago in "Sarum".


46 posted on 09/24/2006 7:57:10 PM PDT by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: Rockitz

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.


47 posted on 09/24/2006 8:02:46 PM PDT by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: Westlander
I wasn't aware the Rove weather machine was operational back then.

It was operated by that little known ancestral offshoot, Homo rovicus.

48 posted on 09/24/2006 8:03:39 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hugo Chavez is the Devil! The podium still smells of sulfur...)
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To: RJL

People who can only imagine one way to spell, are linguistically challenged.


49 posted on 09/24/2006 8:09:14 PM PDT by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: GSlob
Your arguments do not, "hold water." You seem to know that the differential between this supposed lake and the prevailing sea level was a minor thing. Something for which you offer no evidence. Secondly, the proposed Northern shore would not have to be anything other than the Continental Shelf in the current North Sea area, if the ancient sea level were low enough. How you insist that there must be some great defining Northern ridge is beyond me. It could just be a slight rise - just enough to contain the waters of the lake. When the supposed breach occurred to the South, the defining aspect of its scoring effect would be the difference in water levels. For which you, again, offer no proof as to how low the prevailing sea level was at that time.
50 posted on 09/24/2006 8:09:42 PM PDT by Socratic ( "Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied" - J.S. Mill)
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To: carumba
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.

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.

51 posted on 09/24/2006 8:10:56 PM PDT by LexBaird (Another member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/NWO/Illuminati conspiracy for global domination!)
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To: 75thOVI; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; CGVet58; chilepepper; ckilmer; demlosers; ...
Catastrophism

52 posted on 09/24/2006 8:12:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 16, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks Blam.

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53 posted on 09/24/2006 8:12:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 16, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GSlob
The accounts written here make no sense. If the author is unaware of the great Rhein Graben valley through the middle of Europe he is ignorant. If the author imagines there was a great Cenozoic lake in the North Sea area, he will have to explain why this did not drain via the channels seen north-west of the Orkneys. Or via channels north-east toward Spitsbergen.

The account does not make sense.

54 posted on 09/24/2006 8:15:00 PM PDT by thomaswest (Thank God for continental drift.)
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To: blam
The flood would have taken place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago..

I learned, right here on FreeRepublic, that the earth is only 6000 years ago. /s

55 posted on 09/24/2006 8:15:12 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon (History convinces me that bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bw17
Let me understand this:
you want a flood to create a vast channel between California and New England..right?

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.

56 posted on 09/24/2006 8:21:38 PM PDT by norton
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To: GSlob
The northern rim had to be high for the lake to be deep and hold a lot of water. Low rim = low water-holding capacity = not enough erosion. And a high rim would be difficult to submerge and erode, and it would be right there as a very prominent underwater feature somewhere in the North Sea.

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.

57 posted on 09/24/2006 8:21:55 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: donmeaker
Sarum Missal


58 posted on 09/24/2006 8:23:10 PM PDT by blam
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To: DannyTN

Still they won't believe it.

Evidence doesn't matter to them.


59 posted on 09/24/2006 8:24:45 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: 1ofmanyfree

Those cliffs looked much different when I saw them: It was from the windows of a Chinook Helicopter, and they shook around alot! :-)


60 posted on 09/24/2006 8:26:03 PM PDT by bannie (HILLARY: Not all perversions are sexual.)
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