Chapter 1 – The Last Ice Age
Introduction Twelve thousand years ago, according to our written history, the glaciers from the last Ice Age finally melted away,
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Chapter 2 – Hydrology
Book Extract…………………………….. Groundwater and Aquifers The presence and flow of groundwater is the key element to my hypothesis, so it
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Chapter 3 – Sea Level Changes
Book Extract…………………………….. If our ‘flooded Britain’ hypothesis is correct, we should be able to get verification via the empirical evidence
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Chapter 4 – North American Post-Glacial Flooding
Book Extract…………………………….. The geological formations of valleys are created by running rivers and shifting glaciers. Valleys are depressed areas of
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Chapter 5 – Black Sea Post-Glacial Flooding
Book Extract…………………………….. The sea surface salinity record from the Northern Aegean Sea is indicative of two meltwater events at –8.4
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Chapter 6 – Germany’s Post-Glacial Flooding
Book Extract…………………………….. A conspicuous gap in the radiocarbon record of the Iron Gates Mesolithic suggests that many riverbank sites were
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Chapter 7 – Britain’s Post-Glacial Flooding
Book Extract…………………………….. When floods rise and fall, they characteristically leave behind a sediment signature. This is generally heterolithic in character;
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Chapter 8 – Peat (Ultimate Evidence of Holocene Flooding).
Book Extract…………………………….. The formation of bogs in the UK began 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice
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Chapter 9 – Holocene Rivers in Britain
Book Extract…………………………….. A recent review of radiocarbon-dated Holocene fluvial deposits in the U.K., suggests that the lowland river systems in
Read moreChapter 10 – River Avon (Case Study)
The Quaternary deposits in the Avon valley include clay-with-flints, head, gravelly head, river terrace deposits, brickearth, alluvium and occasional peat.
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