A Tsunami Devastated Stone-age Britain. Could it happen again? | Science News

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A new study by a group of British geologists suggests that a huge tsunami devastated the populations of Stone Age Britain, about 8200 years ago. This new research is about a fantastically destructive series of disasters known as the three Storegga slides. Sounds like a ride at an amusement park, but it was far from that. Could it happen again? Let’s have a look.

The new paper is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

The paper with the wave simulation is this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

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