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I thought this was a rather interesting "cataclysmic" reading of the severing of Britain from the Continent.

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2372472.html

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Much the same has been said of the Straits of Gibraltar and the Dardanelles - ex the glacier. I wonder if the Netherlands sinking into the sea has any bearing on the British case?

 

Denmark and Sweden in re the Baltic?

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They don't mention Doggerland. During glaciation the area between England and Denmark was lowland tundra. The weight of the ice pushing down on the land to the north actually made this area bulge upward. As the ice melted, the land evened out - the northern land rising (northern Sweden is still rising) and the southern land sinking (Netherlands). I just wonder how they determined the date? Couldn't this have happened after an even earlier ice age? If not, then under the peat at the bottom of the southern North Sea must be evidence of an inland lake?

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Considering the Low Countries, would 'tectonic' plates have something to do with this?

We are (mercifully) clear of subduction zone activity.

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