Catastrophic flooding origin of shelf valley systems in the English Channel | Semantic Scholar
@article{Gupta2007CatastrophicFO,
title={Catastrophic flooding origin of shelf valley systems in the English Channel},
author={Sanjeev Gupta and Jenny S. Collier and Andy Palmer-Felgate and Graeme Potter},
journal={Nature},
year={2007},
volume={448},
pages={342-345},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4408290}
}It is suggested that megaflooding provides an explanation for the permanent isolation of Britain from mainland Europe during interglacial high-sea-level stands, and consequently for patterns of early human colonisation of Britain together with the large-scale reorganization of palaeodrainage in northwest Europe.