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Ancient DNA from Doggerland separates the U.K. from Europe:
Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through an area known as Doggerland. However, a marine inundation took place during the mid-holocene, separating the British landmass from the rest of Europe, which is now covered by the North Sea.
Scientists from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick have studied sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) from sediment deposits in the southern North Sea, an area which has not previously been linked to a tsunami that occurred 8150 years ago.
[...] Professor Vince Gaffney from the School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences at the University of Bradford said, "Exploring Doggerland, the lost landscape underneath the North Sea, is one of the last great archaeological challenges in Europe. This work demonstrates that an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and scientists can bring this landscape back to life and even throw new light on one of prehistory's great natural disasters, the Storegga Tsunami.
"The events leading up to the Storegga tsunami have many similarities to those of today. Climate is changing and this impacts on many aspects of society, especially in coastal locations."
The sedaDNA technique could help predict the effects of rising sea levels on coastal environments.
Journal Reference:
Gaffney, Vincent, Fitch, Simon, Bates, Martin, et al. Multi-Proxy Characterisation of the Storegga Tsunami and Its Impact on the Early Holocene Landscapes of the Southern North Sea, Geosciences (DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10070270)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:13PM (2 children)
So, how was the UK physically joined to the rest of Europe if the diagrams in the publication show only a few miles of coastal movement? And it looks like that coastal movement didn't even occur at the narrowest part of the North Sea (the English Channel at Dover), and occurred in the direction of scandinavia, not central Europe.
That's not even editorializing, that falls squarely in the area of "original research". Without any proof, of course.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:01PM
Europe's Last Frontiers [teamapp.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:30PM
Same sort of science that brought you AGW... they see what they want to see in the data. You can't see it unless you're a true believer too