Visit 50,000 Year Old Underwater Primeval Forest Found in Gulf of Mexico (VIDEO)

Hispanically Speaking ^ | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 | unattributed

[central_va]

Somewhere a diver that was interviewed by this “reporter” is ROTFLMAO over reading half mile wide tree stump in this article....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sequoyah101 and Wuli for these other links, very helpful.

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/3821/20130709/underwater-forest-alabama-coast-uncovered-katrina-50-000-years-old.htm

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/09/ancient_forest_lies_10_miles_o.html

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html

Thanks to all who pointed out the same things I pointed out in post #4.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3042453/posts?page=4#4

[blam]

"I’ll forever remember that long burning fire and how that log sparkled and popped. It smelled like a primeval forest."

Ha, ha.

Some said it reminded them of the good old days.

[Sequoyah101]

I’ve heard stories of huge petrified logs buried along a line between College Station and somewhere around Fort Polk, Louisiana. So far just rumors of course but you get to wondering.

[SatinDoll]

This drowned forest was above sea level over 10,000 years ago. It was covered with mud and sea water at the end of the Ice Age, and was oxygen deprived all these millenia, until hurricane Katrina moved all the covering, exposing the drowned trees.

This isn’t so rare along coastal waterways. There exist drowned forests off the northwest coast of North America, caused by the same thing that affected those trees off of Mississippi — the rising sea level at the end of the Ice Age.

[texas booster]

It is really hard to understand the GoM if you have never left NYC and Columbia Univ. They must have not learned any map skills in the new Boy Scouts.

I am wondering why the fishermen contacted LSU and not one of the fine Alabama universities ...

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3042453/posts?page=4#4

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3042453/posts?page=62#62

[cornfedcowboy]

I want to see the 2600ft tape measure.