Josh Clark

And this is a really tantalizing view of, and I can't use that word enough in this episode, tantalizing.

This is a tantalizing view of all the stuff that's probably underwater throughout Doggerland.

Yeah, but still a lot of people would have died because they think that the tsunami swept 25 miles inland, which is a lot of settlements that you can take out 25 miles in.

And I don't know if you remember, but in our Younger Dryas episode, we talked about isostatic rebound or adjustment where the glaciers and ice sheets were so heavy that they actually pushed the Earth downward.

And it took some areas of land down with it, like Scotland, but it raised other areas up, kind of like if you put a bowling ball on a mattress, which, you know, you usually do.

And one of the areas that got raised up was Doggerland, right?

So when the glaciers melted, Doggerland started to sink.

And then in addition to that, the glaciers melting made the sea levels rise, which is why this stuff was happening so quickly.

They think that possibly sea level rise was happening as fast as a meter over a century, which doesn't sound like much.

But right now, the sea level rise we're worried about is happening like 30 centimeters a century.

So that is a really fast sea level rise.

So it's not like it would have caught people off guard, but their way of life would have been disrupted pretty significantly by the tsunamis and the sea level rise.

That's like twice as fast, at least.

So as the sea levels rose and Doggerland sank, Scotland, by the way, is still rising.

The land wasn't just some flat mass.

There were highlands, there were hills and all that.

So little by little, it was submerged.

And they think that the last bit was probably Dogger's Bank.

because it's one of the most shallow parts of the North Sea.

And by the time it was completely submerged, all the people who had moved upward in the British Isles were now officially British.