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Posted on 10/22/2019 7:28:33 AM PDT by fishtank
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?
(Excerpt) Read more at crev.info ...
Everything you see floating down the river, plants, trees, and garbage, ends up in the ocean. Wood can get saturated with water and will sink to the bottom. And the planet has had hundreds of millions, if not billions of years to dump terrestrial stuff in the ocean.Is this really a mystery?
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Gravy? Very small pebbles? A duck!
“Cargo cult with 5th Generation fighter jet effigy?”
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Their design engineers are better than we thought?
yes,
it’s called spring floods.
Happens every year.
A long time ago, you or someone in one of your threads, posted a site that had a study with survey pics that looked to indicate a massive gianormous impact that pretty much covered the entire southern ocean basin iirc. Scar marks radiating outwards stretched all the way to the landmasses from the impact just north of the antartic landmass or thereabouts.
It was supposed, or theorized, that the world was much drier prior and that the impact was an ice comet and that’s where much of the ocean waters came from. This was also the same site that showed the river runs from the continental shelves down to the seabeds.
You still have that link? Or was that someone else?
Oh, and notice everyone’s avoiding the obvious answer...
Mermaids with wood working hobbies.
Sea level rise due to global warming?
E.T. proving that hallucinogens and piloting do not mix: https://meteorcrater.com/
The wood is from the hollow trees where the elves of ages past baked cookies.
The Eltanin Impact may be what you're sort of remembering, conflated with the Louis Frank small comets. The latter have delivered enough water to Earth over the 4.5 billion years to account for every drop in the oceans; the former was about 2 million years ago and IMHO glaciated Antarctica, which (contrary to what is often claimed) had a temperate climate in at least part of the continent only 2.5 million years ago.
Mmm, maple-flavored manatee.
Time to post “The Book.” Firestone, et al.
From the article: “The paper is also silent about how the layers were dated. There is no mention of radiometric dating or radiocarbon (which would not be expected to survive past 100,000 years, anyway). Perhaps the dates were inferred by the layers they were in, according to the geologic column.”
“However the layers were dated, the millions-of-years dates are problematic not just because wood would not be expected to survive so long. Another problem is why so little wood was detected. There was plenty scattered throughout the cores, to be sure, but 19 million years is a long time.”
Since the article refers to multiple sand layers interspersing the mud layers, it is not clear if some of the wood might be young enough to test with C14. The pieces are in mm to cm sizes and dark. Also a thousand feet from shore and dating back as far as 19 million years. Are there other ways besides C14 to test very old wood? I suppose it would be the anoxic conditions that would preserve it as wood rather than fossil.
There's a 50K limit for RC dating; greater sensitivity is poosible out to about 60K I believe, but in practice, in the wild, the samples would have to be demonstrably pristine, a condition that does not alas persist in the oceans. Other radiometric methods would work, but on minerals rather than wood.
Good idea.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
So a crash course in 'removal' would be to plant lots of trees, cut them down and dump them in the ocean... Works better that taking our wealth and redistributing it to third world dictators...
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