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	Bristol Channel - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Bristol Channel is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from South West England and extending from the lower estuary of the River Severn to that part of the North Atlantic Ocean known as the Celtic Sea.
		On the English coast is the city of Bristol, and associated ports at Avonmouth and Portishead, and the towns of Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare and Minehead in Somerset, and Ilfracombe, Bideford and Barnstaple in Devon.
		At two of the narrower parts, near Bristol and Chepstow, the channel is crossed by the Severn Bridge and the Second Severn Crossing carrying, respectively, the M48 and M4 motorways.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Bristol_Channel (712 words)

	Tsunami K-12 Experiments for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects
		The aftermath of the tsunami that struck Newfoundland in 1929.
		January 20, 1606/1607: along the coast of the Bristol Channel (main article) thousands of people were drowned, houses and villages swept away, farmland was inundated and flocks were destroyed by a flood that might have been a tsunami.
		The cause of the flood remains disputed, it is quite possible that it was caused by a combination of meteorological extremes and tidal peaks.(discussion).
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/earthsciences/tsunami.html (4648 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bristol Channel
		The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from South West England and extending from the lower estuary of the River Severn to that part of the North Atlantic Ocean known as the Celtic Sea.
		The limit of the Bristol Channel is St Govan's Head in Pembrokeshire, Lundy Island, and Hartland Point in Devon.
		Western and Northern Pembrokeshire and North Cornwall are outside of the limit of the Bristol Channel, and are considered part of the seaboard of the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bristol_Channel (1175 words)

	Bristol Channel floods, 1607 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the Bristol Channel floods resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, with houses and villages swept away, farmland inundated and livestock destroyed, wrecking the local economy along the coasts of the Bristol Channel, England.
		Traditionally it had long been believed that the floods were caused by a combination of meteorological extremes and tidal peaks when a flood hit the shores of the channel.
		The flooding described in Norfolk on the night of the same date is hard to explain as a tsunami.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bristol_Channel_floods,_1607 (467 words)

	1607 Flood in Bristol Channel - A UK Tsunami?
		The flood occurred around 9am on the '20th January 1606', although in the modern calendar this is the 30th January 1607.
		An area from Barnstaple in north Devon, up the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary to Gloucester, then along the South Wales coast around to Cardigan was affected, some 570 km of coastline.
		The speed of the wave appears to have been faster than a storm flood as the wave is 'affirmed to have runne ….
	www.burnham-on-sea.com /1607-flood.shtml (1013 words)

	The Great Flood of 1606 :: Tom Wright
		Maybe, but references to the flooding of the River Taff in 1607 might suggest that a flood of 1607 could have been the result of freshwater flooding not saltwater inundation.
		Apart from the impressive original account of the tidal flood, which TW points out includes the two vital elements of powerful winds from the west and top spring tide,which combined to produce a storm surge of epic proportions, culminating in a phenomenol bore tide and Flood, the parish references from Arlingham church are quite astonishing.
		Additionally, the flood is reported to have occurred along both sides of the Bristol Channel at least as far west as Carmarthenshire on the north and Dorset on the south.
	www.severnsolutions.co.uk /twblog/archive/2005/01/06/greatflood1606 (4301 words)

	A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
		There are 3 feet at low water in the shallowest part of the channel, and at the quays there is a depth of 14 feet at high water of spring tides, and 10 feet at neap tides.
		The south-western recesses of the bay are separated from the rest by a bank called Cunnigar Point, between which and the town it is proposed to throw up an embankment for the purpose of reclaiming the inner recesses of the bay.
		It is situated on St. George's channel, and comprises 6115 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act.
	www.libraryireland.com /topog/d5.php (18666 words)

	Geology of Britain Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the early Cambrian period the volcanoes and mountains of England and Wales were eroded as the land became flooded by a rise in sea level, and new layers of sediment were laid down.
		Rock fragments found near Bristol appear to indicate that in 214 Ma Great Britain was showered with a fine layer of debris from an asteroid impact at the Manicouagan Impact Crater in Canada, although this is still being debated.
		The rest of Britain is sinking, generally estimated at 1 mm (1/25 inch) per year, with the London area sinking at double the speed partly due to the continuing compression of the recent clay deposits.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Geology_of_Britain (2688 words)

	Weekly Water News
		Westfield, MA was deluged with 18.15 inches of rain in 24 hours, and at Woonsocket, RI the Blackstone River swelled from seventy feet in width to a mile and a half.
		It was Chicago's worst flash flood event, particularly for northern and western sections of the city.
		As many as 34 deaths were attributed to this flooding, along with the destruction of 34 bridges.
	www.aos.wisc.edu /~hopkins/WES/sum_04/WESsu04news16.html (1586 words)

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		Sedimentation in rivers was responsible indirectly for floods, because the channels became choked and caused the river to overflow.
		In places where rivers cut new channels, Hill observed that a rich fl mold was sometimes underlain by layers of sand and gravel; below this there might be a layer of quicksand, that could easily be undermined by the water.
		The channels of small or moderately sized gullies were filled by hand with shrubs, pieces of rails, turfs, or other waste matter.
	www.soilandhealth.org /01aglibrary/010107earlyam/010107earlyamsoil.html (19968 words)

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		1607 - An English army is destroyed by the Spanish at the Battle of Haarlem.
		With control of the Channel now firmly in Alliance control, the ships are forced to head northwards around Scotland and Ireland (retracing the route of the 1588 armada).
		1888 - The Channel Tunnel Project, already beset by engineering difficulties, encounters new problems when the merchants of Calais gain a court injunction, fearing that the facilities on the new, artificial mid-channel island (which as yet is unnamed) will effect their businesses.
	alternatehistory.com /shwi/LILBURNE.txt (23625 words)

	Bristol Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are many towns along the coast of the Bristol Channel, particularly in the idustrial areas of South Wales.
		On the English coast is the city of Bristol, and associated ports at Avonmouth and Portishead, and the towns of Clevedon, Western-Super-Mare and Minehead in Somerset, and Ilfracombe and Barnstaple in Devon.
		On January 20, 1607 (or maybe January 20, 1606) thousands of people were drowned, houses and villages swept away, farmland inundated and flocks destroyed when a flood hit the shores of the channel.
	bristol-channel.kiwiki.homeip.net (522 words)

	Bristol Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On the English coast is the city of Bristol, and associated ports at Avonmouth and Portishead, and the towns of Clevedon, Weston-Super-Mare and Minehead in Somerset, and Ilfracombe and Barnstaple in Devon.
		On January 20, 1607 thousands of people were drowned, houses and villages swept away, farmland inundated and flocks destroyed when a flood hit the shores of the channel.
		It was commemorated in a contemporary pamphlet "''God's warning to the people of England by the great overflowing of the waters or floods''." The cause of the flood remains disputed.
	bristol-channel.iqnaut.net (645 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Tsunami theory of flood disaster
		A tsunami in the Bristol Channel could have caused the deaths of up to 2,000 people in one of Britain's greatest natural disasters, experts have said.
		For centuries, it has been thought that the great flood of January 1607 was caused by high tides and severe storms.
		The Killer Wave of 1607, a Timewatch special, was broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday 3 April.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4397679.stm (638 words)

	Tsunami
		January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia Subduction Zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.
		On November 18, 1929, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred beneath the Laurentian Slope on the Grand Banks.
		The cause of the flood remains disputed, it is quite possible that it was caused by a combination of meteorological extremes and tidal peaks (
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ts/Tsunami.htm (3681 words)

	SOMERSETSHIRE - Online Information article about SOMERSETSHIRE
		Bristol Channel, N. and N.E. by See also:
		east of Bruton, near the borders of Wiltshire, and enters the Bristol Channel near the mouth of the Parrett; and the Exe (with its tributary the Barle), which rises in Exmoor forest and passes southward into See also:
		The Great Western runs between Frome, Radstock, Bath and Bristol, and from Bristol it curves south-west through Weston and Bridgwater to Taunton, dividing there and passing on into Devon.on the north, and for See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOMERSETSHIRE.html (4651 words)

	ENGLISH VILLAGES
		So we will endeavour to discover what kind of men they were, who roamed our fields and woods before any historical records were written, and mark the very considerable traces of their occupation which they have left behind.
		Where the North Sea now rolls there was the great valley of the Rhine; and as there were no ocean-waves to cross, animals and primitive man wandered northwards and westwards from the Continent, and made their abode here.
		In the Channel Islands bodies were often placed in a kneeling position.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/8vilg10h.htm (19850 words)

	More Info on tsunami - - sunami - - tusnami
		Again, being educated about a tsunami is important, to realise that when the water level drops the first time, the danger is not yet over.
		Japan has implemented an extensive programme of building tsunami walls of up to 4.5m (13.5 ft) high in front of populated coastal areas.
		New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) To celebrate the best of human spirit during the worst of times, television channel HBO is set to premier a two-part miniseries 'Tsunami, The Aftermath' back-to-back on the second anniversary of the disaster Dec 26, with a repeat telecast four days later.
	www.usgovernetics.com /Sud-to-Sys/tsunami.php (4656 words)

	Tsunami Resource Page - tsunamies
		January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes sunami water slide on record, ruptures the Cascadia Subduction Zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.
		On the facing coasts of Java and Sumatra the sea flood went many miles inland and caused such vast loss of life that one area was computer generated tidal wave sunami pictures never resettled but went back to the jungle and is now the Ujung Kulon nature reserve.
		January 20, 1606/1607: along the coast of the Bristol Channel (main article) thousands of people cateoria del sunami were drowned, houses and villages swept away, farmland was inundated and flocks were destroyed by a flood that might have tunami and cartoon network been a tsunami.
	www.eduwho.com /ll/Tsunami.html (4152 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pan, Z.-T., E. Takle, M. Segal, and R. Turner, 1996: Influence of model parameterization schemes on the response of rainfall to soil moisutre in the centeral United States.
		Parol, F., J. Buriez, G. Brogniez, and Y. Fouquart, 1991: Information content of AVHRR channels 4 and 5 with respect to the effective radius of cirrus cloud particles.
		Pircher, V. and F. Saix, 1991: Multiscale case study of the sustained thunderstorm activity associated with the Nimes flood event on 3 October 1988.
	twister.ou.edu /references/P.html (14905 words)

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		Strange my fortunes since have been, Bathed in fire, in floods congealed, In the nebulous mass aglow, In the ardent planet wheeled: From the shapeless, slow but sure Taking shapes with beauty rife; From the senseless clod at length Plucking out the heart of life.
		We conjectured that the first excavation was all that remained of Gosnolds cellar and the latter a part of the trench dug for the purpose of forming the fort.
		Entering the harbor a number of small catboats are seen, standing on and off, ready to convey passengers and bag- gage, live stock and freightwhatever comes their waythrough the nar- rows into the pond, where a land- ing can be made.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/newe/newe0023.sgm (17979 words)

	tsunami
		In a small room up a rickety staircase in a tsunami-damaged building on Sri Lanka's south coast, Roshan Waduthantri sits glued to an earthquake warning Web site and monitors cable TV channels.
		Nagapattinam, Aug.31 : The tsunami devastation of December 26, 2004 had left a large number of people without shelter in Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam District and town.
		PERALIYA: In a small room of a tsunami-damaged building on Sri Lankas south coast, Roshan Waduthantri sits glued to an earthquake warning website and monitors cable TV channels.
	www.theramonitor.com /Tra-to-Tug/tsunami.php (5134 words)

	Oracles of Nostradamus: England
		The floods spoken of commenced about the end of January, 1607.
		The principal damage occurred in Somersetshire, where the sea broke down the dykes, and overflowed the country for thirty miles in length and six miles inland, to the destruction of all property and most of the inhabitants.
		The renewal took place in 1606, and was simply defensive, precisely as the quatrain puts it.
	www.sacred-texts.com /nos/oon/oon14.htm (12910 words)

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		art deco structure located on the main channel of the port.
		Mississippi River Museum: Rooms about: development of the river, pre-Columbian, Spanish and French periods, the commercial periods before and after the Civil War, the Civil War, the great floods, life along the river (the musical history of the river has a room)and the modern era.
		Each period has a room with boatmodels, all to the same scale, ranging from flatbed canoes to modern towboats, with Spanish galleys, stern and side wheelers, and at least one example of most if not all of the Civil War belligerents gunboats and rams.
	www.bb62museum.org /usnavmus.htm (5197 words)

	Men and times of the revolution; : a machine-readable transcription.
		Here, in 1607, English adventurers first landed on the continent.
		It is two and a half miles wide at this place, and has thirty feet water in its Channel.
		Ten miles below this city, its majestic flood laves Mount Vernon, the sequestered seat of the immortal Washington.
	memory.loc.gov /gc/lhbtn/04951/04951.sgm (18489 words)

	Royal Meteorological Society - Weather 2006 Contents
		The Bristol Channel floods of 1607 – reconstruction and analysis
		Selkirk flood of 30 May 2003: an account and some reflections
		Weather image: The Mistral as seen by satellite
	www.rmets.org /publication/weather/wea06.php (471 words)

	Recent Additions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Detecting the influence of land use changes on discharges and floods in the Meuse River Basin - the predictive power of a ninety-year rainfall-runoff relation?
		'Signals' from pre-crisis discourse: lessons from UK flooding for global environmental policy change?
		Relationships among probability distributions of stream discharges in floods, climate, bed load transport, and river incision.
	www.metoffice.gov.uk /corporate/library/molars/month1.html (10197 words)

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