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Monday, 7 August 2023
Submerged forest, Manorbier.
Thanks to Adrian James for publishing these photos on the Pembs geology Facebook page. They show good exposures of the peaty bed and some substantial tree trunks / branches, where the stream reaches the beach.
4 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Interesting but rather lazy. There are likely wooden remains at Manorbier - it has every signs of being a harbor in early days, witness the castle and church, not to forget the remains from even earlier times You did not provide a link to the research so maybe I am being premature, but the link to prehistoric forests should be underpinned.
Anon, please identify yourself in future! Thanks. I am inclined to accept this record, because of the association of tree remains with peat beds. There have been other observations from here in the past, and the bay should contain relics of the submerged forest, just like almost every other bay in Pembs. If you want to check out other info relating to the submerged forests, just use the search facility -- on Blogger it is remarkably good.
The above comment was from me, Chris. Not sure why it came through as anonymous.
I am familiar with submerged forests on this coast and so it could well be. However on the evidence presented it could be almost anything. From what I have seen the “harbor”is likely on the other side of the castle but then the geography must have been quite different than today. Manorbier is an ancient location with remains into the neolithic. Some serious research is merited, well beyond blather about submerged forests.
4 comments:
Interesting but rather lazy. There are likely wooden remains at Manorbier - it has every signs of being a harbor in early days, witness the castle and church, not to forget the remains from even earlier times
You did not provide a link to the research so maybe I am being premature, but the link to prehistoric forests should be underpinned.
Anon, please identify yourself in future! Thanks. I am inclined to accept this record, because of the association of tree remains with peat beds. There have been other observations from here in the past, and the bay should contain relics of the submerged forest, just like almost every other bay in Pembs. If you want to check out other info relating to the submerged forests, just use the search facility -- on Blogger it is remarkably good.
The above comment was from me, Chris. Not sure why it came through as anonymous.
I am familiar with submerged forests on this coast and so it could well be. However on the evidence presented it could be almost anything. From what I have seen the “harbor”is likely on the other side of the castle but then the geography must have been quite different than today. Manorbier is an ancient location with remains into the neolithic. Some serious research is merited, well beyond blather about submerged forests.
Hi Chris -- weird and wonderful are the ways of Blogger....... How are you? Hope all is well.
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