Doggerland connected Britain to Europe—rivers, wetlands, open plains, mammoths, reindeer. Norway's Storegga Slide triggered an ~80-ft tsunami. 840 cubic miles of seabed collapsed. 2023 research found an even older slide ~12,000 years prior. Human remains vanish after the wave 🐘🌊
Doggerland: lost land bridge between Britain and Europe destroyed by tsunami
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- Doggerland once connected Britain to Europe
- It was a landscape of rivers, wetlands, and open plains with mammoths and reindeer
- Rising seas slowly shrank Doggerland over millennia
- Around 6200 BCE, a massive submarine landslide (Storegga Slide) occurred off Norway
- 720 cubic miles of seabed collapsed, triggering a tsunami
- Wave reached 46 feet high in places, traveling 50 miles inland in Scotland
- Doggerland sat less than 16 feet above sea level with nowhere to run
- Radiocarbon dating shows human remains and Mesolithic tools vanished after the tsunami
- 2023 study revealed older NGA slide predating Storegga by 12,000 years
- Folklore of sunken kingdoms in Wales and Brittany may echo this loss
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Tiny island survived tsunami that helped separate Britain and Europenewscientist.com
A little over 8000 years ago, a devastating tsunami swept across the North Sea, striking a small island that existed there at the time.
82-Foot Tsunami Erases Ancient Doggerland Civilization (Video)surfer.com
Doggerland once connected Britain to Europe; a tsunami allegedly destroyed it. · A video claims a 25-meter wave “erased” the Doggerland ...
Storegga Slide - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
The collapse involved an estimated 290 km (180 mi) length of coastal shelf, with a total volume of 3,500 km3 (840 cu mi) of debris, which caused a paleotsunami ...
Was Doggerland catastrophically flooded by the Mesolithic Storegga ...ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The tsunami was generated by the Storegga submarine landslide off the Norwegian coast which failed around 8150 years ago. At this time there were also rapid ...
Scientists uncover 'lost world' beneath North Sea – once home to ...discoverwildlife.com
A new study has found evidence to suggest the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland in Europe was covered in a temperate mosaic of oak, elm, ...
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