数百万年来,英国在地理上都是欧洲大陆的一部分——经由一道从英格兰东南部延伸到法国西北部的白垩岩脊,不列颠岛曾与欧洲大陆相连。以往的理论认为,冰川湖外溢对多佛尔海峡的形成有所贡献,但对于理论推测的溃堤点,迄今仍然缺乏高分辨率数据,使对相关假设的检验受限。英国南安普敦大学地质学家桑杰夫·古普塔及其同事 For millions of years, the United Kingdom is geographically part of the European continent - via a cretaceous ridges extending from southeastern England to northwestern France, and the British Isles were once connected to the European continent. Historically, glacial lake spillover has contributed to the formation of the Dover Strait, but so far the high-resolution data are still lacking for theoretical inferential breakdowns, limiting the testing of relevant hypotheses. Geographer Sanjay Gupta and colleagues at the University of Southampton, UK