Posted on 05/09/2025 9:33:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sometimes, all the details line up just right to make an incredible story. It just took these dominoes some 10,000 years to line up. This is the story of the Gribben Basin buried forest outside of Marquette, Michigan.
They Accidentally Found an 11,000-Year-Old Forest. Twice. | 16:38
Alexis Dahl | 105K subscribers | 122,241 views | April 25, 2025 
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Abstract: Due to a unique set of circumstances, we were able to excavate an entire spruce (Picea) forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA, which was buried in the early Holocene (9928 ± 133 uncalibrated 14C years bp). Trees ranged from < 5 cm to > 50 cm in diameter, and dominants were approximately 9 m tall. The stand was multi-aged, with a number of trees over 120 years old. Well-preserved stem cross-sections were recovered, the entire stand was mapped, and field diameter measurements were made on most trees. Data from all stem cross sections are included here, including some that were not used by the authors of Pregitzer et al. (2000; citation below).Gribben buried forest site map and tree measurement data | Kurt Pregitzer | Michigan Technological University | 3-27-2025
Lemme guess:
Climate Change?.....................
What happened 11,000 years ago to bury an entire forest like that?........Must have been a flood or something..................
Yes. It’s almost as if the continent was defrosting after having been buried in ice.
A friend of my nephew found a rather large number of really big chunks of petrified wood and one very large agate (I want to say 50 pounds?) somewhere in Oregon. He posted pictures on his YouTube channel, and the Smithsonian Institute made him a member of some sort.
About 40 years ago I stayed in a hotel (more like an apartment) in Tucumcari NM, and it had a courtyard filled with fossil tree stumps. I wasn’t expecting that. ;^)
Maybe a volcanic eruption to the west...
Perfectly preserved....She doesn’t look a day over 26.
How does it line up with the movement of glaciers? Was the last ‘glacial maximum’ 10,000 years ago?
What happened 11,000 years ago to bury an entire forest like that?........Must have been a flood or something
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100 year long comet debris strike which burned of 10% of Earth’s vegetation, wiped out the mega-fauna, ushered in the Younger Dryas Cold Event
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