A 6m long tree trunk currently exposed on the foreshore at Amroth
After the recent storms, at extreme low tide today on the Amroth foreshore, a vast area of the submerged forest peat beds -- around 200m x 300m -- was exposed. Tree trunks, branches, roots and peaty beds everywhere -- but no giant elk antlers, unfortunately........ Anyway, herewith a selection of images:
Unfortunately it was very difficult today to find any sections where the stratigraphy was revealed -- since the storms occurred, sand has been washing back into the cuttings, and everything was waterlogged anyway. But I was able to see the stony layer and the blue clay here and there, and can confirm that in places the peat bed is less than 10 cm thick.
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Shades of Borth, Ceredigion, and Westward Ho!, North Devon, for me.
I think I may have seen signs of the Amroth submerged forest too, back in the late 1970s.
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