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    Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 21:15
Great map, Dolphin, love it. In Australia the word "stoush" is an adjective and a verb. A lot of these great old words are dying now, unfortunately. During WWI the newspapers refered to the "The Great Stoush" and a battle was "a bit of the stoush". Yes, many Australian terms did originate from Ireland. But much traces back to the seventieth century.

The convict used what  was  called the  "flash" language common among Londoners of the period which included rhyming slang. That gave a whole new flavor to the English language. To have a "butchers hook" was to go and take a look. "Me old china" could mean your wife, meaning dinner plate, meaning, oh never mind. It started off as a way of confusing authorities who always wanted to speak proper!
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Very good point, Red Clay. What Im saying is it would have taken more that just a lake to make the English Channel a permanent feature. The explanation given by the researcher for the event is just not good enough to carry water so to speak. However the article you sent gives example of believable causes. it is estimated from the annually-banded Greenland ice-core that the annual-mean temperature increased by as much as 10C in 10 years. Great stuff, brief and to the point. As that same article says,. This is a touchy subject that is currently the focus of much research.

Have you noticed how some, dont know who, dispute causes for greenhouse affects? Cutting down carbons may prevent climate change in the short term but not in the long term, for sudden climatic variation is a natural feature of this earth. We dont have to worry about it for may take a lifetime, but then, have you heard, beware of 2012!

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Water has the potential to dramatically alter landforms, the Missoula Floods removed an estimated 50 cubic miles of land from eastern Washington state.
 

The peak flow of the largest floods is estimated to be 40 to 60 cubic kilometers per hour (9.5 to 15 cubic miles per hour).[1][2] The maximum flow speed approached 36 meters/second (80 miles per hour).[3] Up to 1.91019 joules of potential energy were released by each flood, the equivalent of 4500 megatons of TNT.[4] The cumulative effect of the floods was to excavate 210 km (50 mi) of loess, sediment and basalt from the channeled scablands of eastern Washington and to transport it downstream.[1]

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Yes, very good, but I have already answered a similar question. For all others wanting to ask the same question, yes I agree! Water from iceberg melt can change lands. But the original article doesn't say anything like that. As I have pointed twice now that original article needs more evidence ans is badly worded. 
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More specifically the water from melting icesheets that could be over a mile in thickness that often formed huge lakes behind icedams and other features. When these gave way incredible force was released, and the floods were often repeated.
 
The evidence the article cites is the water channels etched into the bottom of the English channel.


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I fould that interesting about the water channels, but again not enough information.  
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Dear
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Why?
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Well Red, it seems that during Ice Ages, there can be created vast lakes kept in bounds by Ice Dams, and to make the theory have some feet, maybe that is what caused the great fast flow of water?

I.e. the ice dam broke!

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