Doggerland

• Autores: Daniel Cossins
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3030, 2015, pág. 35
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Cossins talks about the Doggerland. Doggerland is named after the submerged sandbank familiar to anyone who has ever tuned in to the poetic counsel of the UK Shipping Forecast. Long considered a featureless land bridge, Doggerland has recently been revealed as a prehistoric paradise of marshes, lakes, rivers--and people. A 2014 study estimated that roughly 3,000 cubic kilometers of sediment collapsed, probably triggered by an earthquake, generating a giant tsunami that surged across what was left of Doggerland. Any remaining islands of Doggerland would have been devastated and catastrophically flooded, leading researchers to suggest that the Storegga Slide sounded the death knell for its people. But others suspect that they had long ago fled to higher, drier ground--some to the Scandinavian hills, some to France and the Netherlands, and others to the higher ground of what is now the British coast. Either way, the result was a cultural separation of Britain and mainland Europe that would last for centuries.