Doggerland was a landmass connecting present-day Britain with the European continent, which submerged into the North Sea during the prehistoric period. However, the link behind the land’s disappearance and the legendary Storegga Slide long remained unexplored.Britain’s separation from Europe was triggered by several mega-tsunamis around 8,000 years ago resulting from the Storegga Slide, an international team of researchers have revealed in a study published in the journal Geosciences.
The Storegga Slide was a landslide off the continental shelf off Norway which occurred around 6225–6170 BC, leading to the submarine collapse of hundreds of kilometers of coastal land.
Citing evidence based on geochemical signatures, lithostratigraphy, sedimentary ancient DNA and other data, scientists have been able to prove that tsunamis resulting from the slide led to the submergence of Doggerland – and thus the separation of Britain from the rest of the continent.Doggerland is believed to have been mostly uninhabitable during the last Ice Age, but as the ice melted, plant and animal activity started to emerge on the land – and eventually humans appeared there during the Mesolithic period. No border issues between Britain and Europe existed back then.
As the ice melted, sea levels were rising too, causing the land’s eventual submergence even before the catastrophic Storegga Slide. By 9,000 BC, Britain could have already been separated from the continent, but some landmass probably still existed........MORE
And from Canada's CTV:
If the royal garden at Buckingham Palace was a cocktail, what would it taste like? Now you can find out.
Royal Collection Trust, a department of the Royal Household that oversees Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and the royal art collection, has started selling premium small-batch London dry gin, retailing at £40.00 (CAD$68) per bottle.....MORE
The spirit is infused with 12 different kinds of berries and botanicals hand-picked from Buckingham Palace’s garden, including lemon verbena, hawthorn berries, bay leaves and mulberry leaves....
The Buckingham Palace gin, now for sale, will also be served at official events at the Palace. (Royal Collection Trust)
note: it's "Buckingham Palace" side hustle, Not Queen Elizabeth's side hustle.
She's got a daytime job, she's doin' alright.
Previously on underwater landslides:
Re/Insurance: "Pandemic could inflate hurricane industry losses by up to 20%..."
Of course the jackpot for risk modelers is to have a volcano go off triggering an earthquake leading to the collapse of an underwater seamount, causing a tsunami as a hurricane roars through a pandemic zone.These 4 Ancient Apocalypses Changed the Course of Civilization
Most likely location for this unlikely occasion: the Lesser Antilles.
Unlike Fukushima, no nukes though.
So it would be hard to recreate the typhoon approaching the nuke plant devastated by tsunami caused by the earthquake* but, but volcano and pandemic!
I believe for the remainder of 2020 our motto should be "Hey, it could be worse!""
Jakarta Post: "Sunda Strait tsunami: What we know so far"
...More to come.We last mentioned the volcano in September 24's "Oh Great, Now Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa) Is Erupting":
Actually it's not a big deal (yet). I wanted an excuse to link to MAGMA Indonesia (Multiplatform Application for Geohazard Mitigation and Assessment....
Well, it's a big deal now.
These submarine landslides can unleash amazing amounts of energy. The Storegga slides off Norway 8200 years ago set off tsunami's that are what supposedly finished washing away the land bridge (Doggerland) between Britain and Europe.
At the end of the last ice age, Britain formed the northwest corner of an icy continent. Warming climate exposed a vast continental shelf for humans to inhabit. Further warming and rising seas gradually flooded low-lying lands. Some 8,200 years ago, a catastrophic release of water from a North American glacial lake and a tsunami from a submarine landslide off Norway inundated whatever remained of Doggerland.
