Wood Buried Under Ocean Floor Thousands of Miles at Sea

Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | 10-22-19 | David F. Coppedge

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Wood Buried Under Ocean Floor Thousands of Miles at Sea

October 22, 2019 | David F. Coppedge

Wood chips hundreds of feet deep in ocean sediments have been found. How did they get there?

Watch out for ocean trees.

Geology researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) went boring into ocean sediments near India, and were surprised to find direct evidence that “Catastrophic events carry forests of trees thousands of miles to a burial at sea.” They pulled up six cores of sediment from the ocean floor a thousand feet below the surface. The cores were extracted miles apart and over a thousand miles from shore.

Geology researchers at USC Dornsife find, for the first time, evidence that fresh wood can move from its home far inland to settle deep in the ocean, a discovery that appears to add to current models of Earth’s carbon cycle.

One implication is that this kind of burial of wood at sea will cause revisions of Earth’s carbon cycle. Climate models have not sufficiently taken this kind of carbon sequestration into account. But another implication was unexpected. How did wood chips from trees growing on mountains two miles high end up under the ocean floor?

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How could wood get buried thousands of miles out in the deep sea? Credit: Illustra Media, Living Waters

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[SkyPilot]

The Biblical flood was an actual event.

[stars & stripes forever]

[Red Badger]

Ships sink..............

[thefactor]

IBT “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens” GIFs.

[raygunfan]

bingo

[bgill]

Mother Earth’s fault.

[BenLurkin]

Answer: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uosc-cec101819.php

[House Atreides]

Nothing mysterious here. Tsunamis can carry tree branches and whole trees out to sea where they can drift with the currents until ultimately sinking to the ocean floors and become covered with sediment.

[marktwain]

That was my first thought. Floods and winds.

[deport]

A couple of other articles about the history of the earth.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/a-brief-history-of-everyone-who-ever-lived/537942/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-first-americans-links-amazon-indigenous-australians-180955976/

[PTBAA]

Atlantis?

[Slicksadick]

Natives in Tahiti carved their best canoes from California redwoods.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A plan to deepen one of the many rivers in Wisconsin back in the 1950s was aimed at improving barge transportation to area paper mills.

The construction first encountered three feed of wood...

[COBOL2Java]

Atlantis?

Bikini Bottom?

[Hatteras]

Whut?...

[dfwgator]

Now if they really found a pineapple under the sea, that would be news.

[T. Rustin Noone]

My first thought was about the last glacier. So much water was locked into the ice that the ocean levels were hundreds of feet below their current level. Is it not possible that the relatively shallow areas where samples were taken were once dry land?

Just askin’.

[deport]

Our individual lifespan on earth isn’t a blip on the footprint of
history. And as technology improves many other finds will occur.

[COBOL2Java]

Now if they really found a pineapple under the sea, that would be news.

It does make an appearance in the "Hitman" video game...