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How Britain became an island
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How Britain became an island

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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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Gibbard, P. How Britain became an island. Nat Prec (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.1205.1

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