doi:10.1038/npre.2007.1205.1
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How Britain became an island

Philip Gibbard1

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  1. Cambridge Quaternary, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

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Received 03 October 2007 20:33 UTC; Posted 03 October 2007
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Island Britain is separated from the European continent by the English Channel and the North Sea. But it was not always so. The floor of the Channel provides evidence for two catastrophic floods arising from the drainage of huge glacial lakes in the area of the southern North Sea. These megafloods carved the Dover Strait to make Britain the island it is today.

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Second Nature Events Series, Second Nature Island, Second Life, , 27 September 2007

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Gibbard, Philip. How Britain became an island. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1205.1> (2007)

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