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'Submerged forests' revealed by UK storms
TheTelegraph ^
| 21 Feb 2014
| Matthew Payton
Posted on 02/22/2014 8:26:28 AM PST by shove_it
Ancient trees are now emerging for the first time in decades along the Cornish and Welsh coasts after being underwater for thousands of years just off the British shores
While scientists have long known of the existence of these forests, geologists have been now able to use radioactive carbon dating on the Mount Bay specimens and discern that forests extended across the entire bay between 4000 to 6000 years ago. This is a time period when human communities in Britain were slowly abandoning hunter gathering lifestyles for farming...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; globalcooling; globalwarming; godsgravesglyphs
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To: shove_it
Possibly caused when Lake Agassiz in North America, drained 8200 years ago. Pretty amazing that a lake in North America drains and land disappears in northern Europe and probably all over the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz
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posted on
02/22/2014 9:27:51 AM PST
by
Mercat
To: shove_it
Sort of amazing these people 5,000 to 6,000 years ago managed to adapt to the climate change without government help...
/ S
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posted on
02/22/2014 9:38:44 AM PST
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Mastador1
Isn’t that supposed to be spelt hail and hartey?
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posted on
02/22/2014 9:48:44 AM PST
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: shove_it
Forests thrived? Look at them, they’re all DEAD.
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posted on
02/22/2014 9:51:25 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Mercat
Very interesting read.Thanks for posting!
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posted on
02/22/2014 9:56:50 AM PST
by
catbertz
To: John Valentine
Actually it is:
hale and hearty an old person who is hale and hearty is still very healthy and strong At 77 he is hale and hearty, getting up at six every morning to walk three miles. See also: and, hale I was simply parodying the articles misuse of the word.
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posted on
02/22/2014 10:01:44 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: shove_it; SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/22/2014 10:18:14 AM PST
by
shove_it
(old Old Guardsman 1962-63)
To: shove_it
More evidence of prehistoric man-made globull warming caused by ancient farmers and their tractors, combines, SUVs, air conditioning, etc. Og like AC. Run all day. Keep cave cool!
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posted on
02/22/2014 10:25:30 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: shove_it; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks shove_it. The Sinking Lands are described in The Mabinogeon; legendary king Bran the Blessed was so large (he was a giant) that no house could hold him nor ship bear him. When the Welsh crossed the Irish Sea to help their sister, the rest of the warriors crossed on rafts, and Bran waded with just his head above water. South, there were the Lost Lands of Lyonesse, off modern Cornwall, and in the north the Giant's Causeway. Either these legends are distortions of actual information passed down for thousands of years, or they are just amazing coincidences.
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posted on
02/22/2014 10:54:21 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks shove_it. A nice two-list ping.
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posted on
02/22/2014 10:55:08 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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posted on
02/22/2014 10:56:04 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
No, Rock, go to the Telegraph article and read all the comments of the Brits there. Hale is wrong to them, too.
No, take those snow tyres off come May Day, or you’re going down to the court centre and then gaol!
To: Mastador1
I was simply parodying the articles misuse of the word. So was I.
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posted on
02/22/2014 11:05:27 AM PST
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: shove_it
“These forests were growing four or five thousand years when climate was slightly warmer than today.”
Sigh.
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posted on
02/22/2014 11:42:30 AM PST
by
Explorer89
(And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
To: SunkenCiv
In the North Sea, human artifacts and the bones of land animals are dredged. Tree trunks are submerged with roots still in the soil. Authorities think the land sank about 1500 bc.
Submerged forests off the coast of England and Wales are numerous. They are considered recent and post-glacial.
Submerged forests are found near Greenland, Americas east coast and elsewhere around the world. Several thousand years ago, the earth rose and fell.
http://esdocs.org/docs/index-10737.html?page=6
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posted on
02/22/2014 1:15:13 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(FAIR DINKUM)
To: shove_it
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posted on
02/22/2014 1:18:25 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Alas Babylon!
Well what the hale.
Larri?
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posted on
02/22/2014 1:41:26 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
To: shove_it
There are a couple of big stumps hereabouts that are visible at extreme low tide, but the geologists say the land sank in an earthquake.
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posted on
02/22/2014 4:31:10 PM PST
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: shove_it
Mr Howie has labelled the stumps as very fragile and could be damaged by further bad weather and unaware onlookers. Good grief, these stumps have been rotting under water for 6 thousand years and they are worried about damaging them? Skewed priorities? How about focusing on protecting living people from bad weather (and onlookers)! Or just leave weather be, it'll do what it wants all on it's own.
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posted on
02/22/2014 5:07:48 PM PST
by
roadcat
To: Alas Babylon!
“court centre”
Old Bailey.
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posted on
02/22/2014 5:19:23 PM PST
by
PLMerite
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