Brum boffins discover lost prehistoric world, Scientific discovery

[Vampire_Una]

Brum boffins discover lost prehistoric world
Apr 23 2007



By Joanna Geary


A prehistoric land occupied by humans has been uncovered deep under the North Sea by Birmingham scientists.

The discovery has also offered a stark warning about the effects of global warming, according to the University of Birmingham team behind the project.

The area, known as Doggerland, shows for the first time coastlines, rivers, marshlands and hills that would have been home to our ancient ancestors up to the end of the last Ice Age.

A team of five researchers spent 18 months analysing seismic data produced originally for the oil industry to piece together the landscape buried up to 50 metres below the sea bed.

The vast plain, stretching 23,000 square kilometres from the East of England to the Norwegian coast.......

Read more here: http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birmin...#story_continue

[The Dark One]

I think it would be really fun to explore such areas.

[Vampire_Una]

Indeed, yet who's gonna finance that

[Mejita]

Thats sounds cool, I wonder if they'll find cool finds there.