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	How Britain Became an Island

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7-19-2007 9:36 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/718c2127-5331-419b-96fa-2b58811e26f1/B4B5FB15-CF28-40E7-A5C7-D7676AA5516F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" href="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" style="font-size: 11px;">news.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><SPAN class="headline">Study: Flooding Left Britain an Island    </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><P class="ap-story-p">     LONDON     (AP) -- One of Earth's largest-ever floods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, researchers say.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><P class="ap-story-p">The flood unleashed about 35 million cubic feet of water per second, 100 times greater than the water discharge of the Mississippi River.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><P class="ap-story-p">The natural disaster, which occurred about 400,000 years ago during a glacial period, was later followed by rising sea levels that created what is now the English Channel, the study says.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MEGAFLOODS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><P class="ap-story-p">The theory that Britain became an island during a catastrophic flood - rather than through the course of normal erosion - was first proposed in the 1980s. The new study, outlined in the journal Nature, used high-resolution sonar data that were previously unavailable to produce three-dimensional, high-quality imagery of the region.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B4B5FB15-CF28-40E7-A5C7-D7676AA5516F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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