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 ...
Thanks for the Ping. That Wiki piece about Lake Agassiz is one of the most fascinating things I’ve read in some time. Much appreciated!
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