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Published online 18 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070716-11
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The megaflood that made Britain an island
Geological evidence supports theory of surge down the English Channel.
The island that is now England, Scotland and Wales was severed from continental Europe by a cataclysmic flood during the last ice age, according to a group of researchers based in Britain.
The team, led by Sanjeev Gupta, a geologist at Imperial College London, have found strong evidence at the bottom of the English Channel for a 'super-flood' theory first suggested more than 20 years ago1.
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