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Cavemen?

You sure it wasn't cavewomen, driving their cavechildren to school...?



Simon.

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ahem, I very nearly didn't approve this post - pretty close to the mark young man!!!!!

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The months-long gushes of water cut through the island's chalky land bridge to Europe "like a buzz saw through Styrofoam," said Steven Dutch , a geologist at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay who was not associated with the study.

The mega-floods broke through at the present Straits of Dover, the narrowest part of the channel, leaving the white cliffs of Dover where the bridge once began.

"That land bridge had been there for 13 million years," said Philip Gibbard, a geologist at the University of Cambridge, who was not part of the study.

The researchers' map of the seabed found a valley that was miles wide and more than 150 feet deep in some places. They also saw scour marks, layers and islands carved in the rock, said Sanjeev Gupta, lead author of the study and a geologist at Imperial College London.

Gupta compared the features with those of the Scablands in eastern Washington state — a scarred region covering thousands of square miles, comprising deep, dry canyons, giant holes and scattered boulders.

The region is a geological example of a landscape formed by mega-floods. The Scablands floods took place thousands of years ago, when glacial lakes in Idaho drained into the area. To a geologist, the most striking feature of the Scablands is the ripples.

"This looks just like what you'd see in a stream, but it's scaled up 100 times," Dutch said. "There are places where you can see ripple marks that are 50 feet crest to crest."

The bottom of the English Channel has similar features that could only come from a giant flood, the scientists said.

The researchers surmised that the source of the flooding was a lake in the region of the modern North Sea that overflowed because advancing glaciers blocked water from draining elsewhere.

The water poured out at a rate of more than 250 million gallons per second, the scientists said.

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