{"id":1105,"date":"2007-10-07T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/07\/uk-and-france-separated-by-a-gigantic-flood\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T15:52:25","slug":"uk-and-france-separated-by-a-gigantic-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/07\/uk-and-france-separated-by-a-gigantic-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and France separated by a gigantic flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scientists at the Imperial College of London learned that the separation of France and UK (today known as <strong>the Channel<\/strong>) is the result of a gigantic 200,000-year-old flood. A large ridge present roughly along the Calais-Dover line (<em>Weald-Artois anticline<\/em> on the picture below) was then holding a glacial mega-lake.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1106' rel='attachment wp-att-1106' title='Carte de la Manche - Map of the Channel'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/calais_dover.jpg' alt='Carte de la Manche - Map of the Channel' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When it broke down, the ridge let go a major flood that dug a large part of today&#8217;s Channel. It must have been quite an impressive sight!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futura-sciences.com\/fr\/sinformer\/actualites\/news\/t\/oceanographie-1\/d\/en-images-la-mer-du-nord-creusee-par-une-gigantesque-inondation_12446\/\">Futura-Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientists at the Imperial College of London learned that the separation of France and UK (today known as the Channel) is the result of a gigantic 200,000-year-old flood. A large ridge present roughly along the Calais-Dover line (Weald-Artois anticline on the picture below) was then holding a glacial mega-lake. When it broke down, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}