Re: Early Medieval Frisia

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:17:04 GMT, "IE_Json"
<inger_e.johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Doubt it. If you draw a line from Sylt to St.Peter-Ording on
Eiderstedt, that line is close to the border between the tidal flats
and the deeper North Sea. Islands in the tidal flats were prone to
massive and repeated reshaping by the sea, AFAIK Südstrand was one of
these places that was dry for a century or three. But it is unlikely
that the now-deeper North Sea contained islands, except for Helgoland
which is on top of a salt dome.

And wandering sanddunes as well as Dogger's Bank.

Doggerbank is far to the west of Helgoland, off East Anglia.

And sand dunes cannot wander underwater.

In one sense you are right: there were great sand dunes accumulating
in post-glacial times as the North Sea filled. But these sand dunes
are today called Sylt, Amrum, Nordstrand, Eiderstedt, Borkum, Juist,
and all the others. But not further out to the filling basin.

Hayabusa
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