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Thursday 20 February 2014

More from Ynyslas


More nice pics from the submerged forest site at Ynyslas -- near Borth on the Cardigan Bay coast.  I'm not sure of the dates here, but I think the lower photo shows the "normal" exposures of the tree stumps etc -- with just their tips above the sand.  The top photo shows the forest remnants after the sand has been stripped away during the recent storms.

3 comments:

Dave Maynard said...

You are nearly ahead of the loop, Brian! Trackway sounds interesting.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/20/prehistoric-forest-borth-cardigan-bay-wales

BRIAN JOHN said...

Thanks Dave. Quite a nice report -- hadn't seen it before.

Dave Maynard said...

Just a question, did the peat grow around existing trees, or were the two contemporary? Poplar and alder sounds as if it could exist it waterlogged conditions, but oak perhaps not.

I assume there will be variations at different sites. time to go back to John Evans' book.