carlessd
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| posted on 5-3-2008 at 20:18 |
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Ancient Forest
look what i found on google earth.
Dudes i think we may need to find another beach soon 
[Edited on 5-3-2008 by carlessd]
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dont you eat of a bitter fruit!!
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dunk
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| posted on 5-3-2008 at 21:40 |
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Yeah Dude,
Its been really exposed the last couple of weeks,
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justal
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| posted on 6-3-2008 at 08:04 |
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You can always see it in certain areas of the beach.... Sometimes more than others. Although you don't normally see it much at the
Ynyslas end of the each, but if you walk south along the beach at low tide there are some really good sections of it and as you can see
from Dunk's photos some bits that look as if they were growing only yesterday.
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nick-r
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| posted on 6-3-2008 at 11:00 |
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how old are they.....does anyone know?
they actually have a muddy type texture, even though they still resemble tree stumps.
http://www.rcad.co.uk/borthsurf.html
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dunk
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| posted on 6-3-2008 at 11:50 |
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Don't really know how old they are, but Neil used to climb them as a boy!
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justal
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| posted on 6-3-2008 at 11:53 |
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Yep.. Although it is called a fossil forest the stumps aren't fossilised and aren't that old either... About 6500 years old I think.
When the forest was alive sea levels were lower, but as the ice from the last ice age melted and sea-levels rose they were flooded and
preserved.
They were growing in a bed of peat which is also preserved and various bones and deer antlers have been found in the peat too...
Including the bones of the now extinct Aurochs.
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Loxley
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| posted on 6-3-2008 at 12:28 |
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I cant see Dunk's photo on the thread, just the place markers.
After Dunk showed me his piccy's the other weekend I wandered down to the golf club end and took a few myself. Didnt show of as many
roots as Dunks, but interesting all the same.
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mNeil
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| posted on 6-3-2008 at 13:22 |
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thats only because you were chasing me Dunk!
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