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04-05-2017, 09:41 PM
Ice age waterfalls caused the original 'Brexit,' scientists say
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Britain's political separation from the European Union officially began (http://mashable.com/2017/03/29/irish-brexit-puzzle-jigsaw-guardian/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) last week. But the island's original split from mainland Europe actually happened hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Researchers have a new theory for how this prehistoric "Brexit" likely went down: first with an overflowing glacial lake, and later with a catastrophic flood. *
If it wasn't for this set of geological circumstances, Britain may have remained connected to mainland Europe, jutting out into the **rth Sea like Denmark does today, according to a study (http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15101) published Wednesday in Nature Communications.
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Britain's political separation from the European Union officially began (http://mashable.com/2017/03/29/irish-brexit-puzzle-jigsaw-guardian/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) last week. But the island's original split from mainland Europe actually happened hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Researchers have a new theory for how this prehistoric "Brexit" likely went down: first with an overflowing glacial lake, and later with a catastrophic flood. *
If it wasn't for this set of geological circumstances, Britain may have remained connected to mainland Europe, jutting out into the **rth Sea like Denmark does today, according to a study (http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15101) published Wednesday in Nature Communications.
SEE ALSO: Theresa May signing Brexit letter is the meme you've been waiting for (http://mashable.com/2017/03/29/theresa-may-brexit-meme-article-50-signing/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/original-brexit-ice-waterfalls-study/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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