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.
Shades of Borth, Ceredigion, and Westward Ho!, North Devon, for me.
ReplyDeleteI think I may have seen signs of the Amroth submerged forest too, back in the late 1970s.