Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history
01 November 2009The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
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The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
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