Ice age waterfalls caused the original 'Brexit,' scientists say
 

Ice age waterfalls caused the original 'Brexit,' scientists say
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Britain's political separation from the European Union officially began 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 published Wednesday in Nature Communications.

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