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Nature 448, 259-260 (19 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448259a; Published online 18 July 2007

Palaeogeography: Europe cut adrift

Philip Gibbard1

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The floor of the English 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 made Britain what it is today.

"Floods in Channel, Continent Cut Off." This slight variation on a legendary headline in The Times — the original supposedly began with "Fog" — might exemplify Britain's notoriously insular view of the world.

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