* Astronomy

Cumbrian lakes hold a centuries-long flood record

The UK Natural Environment Research Council has funded this investigation through its Urgency Programme, including the on-going investigations in the lakes of Buttermere, Bassenthwaite, Ullswater and Brotherswater, but already new insights are emerging. In Bassenthwaite, for example, the team has an unpublished sediment record stretching back more than 600 hundred years - back beyond AD 1400. The Brotherswater record is even longer in duration.
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