Geologist said that ” atastrophic megafloods isolated Britain from mainland Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago” BY the study of the morphology of the English Channel sea floor, the experts from the Imperial College in London have identified the evidence of not one but it was two . The author named Jenny Collier said that “We have found a large, deep valley carved into the floor of the English Channel, which we believe was caused by high water volumes released during a catastrophic flood event,” she added also that “If this event had not happened, the U.K. would have remained a peninsular of Europe.”. In the journal Nature today, “Collier and her co-author Sanjiv Gupta, reveal that high interglacial sea levels led to marine flooding of the English Channel and the North Sea sometime before 200,000 years ago. ” Collier’s team created a detailed three-dimensional map of the English Channel. The northern Palaeo valley, they used this to identify the large valley. This first flood may have been caused by the breach in a fragile strip of land. This dam was the southern wall of an enormous glacial lake that spanned what was the Southern North Sea. The lake was then fed by Thames and Rhine rivers and was dammed on its northern side by glaciers. At the estimated rate of a million cubic meters the breach of the dam instigated huge drainage of the lake.The world was firmly in the grip of an ice age, which was locked up much water in vast ice caps and made sea levels much lower than they are today. The world warmed several hundred thousand of years, the sea levels rose once more. Flood can not stop by anyone else. It just happened because of the heavy rain and also because of the problems in the road. The People should do about this situation wherein the problem will have a solution.
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http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1478/catastrophic-flood-split-britain-europe
