Adaptation through the ages
Sep 04, 2020
3 minutes
Story by Gavin Malone and Karl Telfer.
When the last ice age ended, the sea level rose and the waters flooded that low lying plain over a period of about three thousand years, stabilising about seven thousand years ago. Over the next millennia the coast line we are now familiar with formed. Hills were eroded by the waves to form cliffs, sandy beaches and dunal systems shaped by the push and pull of tidal motions.
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