Forest was waterlogged & flooded as sea-levels rose after last 'Ice Age'--this event was C14 dated to 6174–5961 BC at nearby Theddlethorpe.
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The drowning of this forest by the rising tide was, of course, part of larger post-'Ice Age' flooding of Doggerland:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/586600030150270976 …
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Worth recalling that Doggerland before flooding=varied landscape, hills+valleys+lakes+marshes: http://theconversation.com/doggerlands-lost-world-shows-melting-glaciers-have-drowned-lands-before-and-may-again-26472 …pic.twitter.com/O3zhUvy8gD
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Approx area lost to the rising sea since last Ice Age, highlighted in red, incl Doggerland https://theconversation.com/doggerlands-lost-world-shows-melting-glaciers-have-drowned-lands-before-and-may-again-26472 …pic.twitter.com/N1WplQ6otC
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Worryingly, http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/abs/nclimate2923.html … (2016) suggests this coastline in 600–5000yrs time (via http://flood.firetree.net/ )pic.twitter.com/f9AUxLuOq0
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Ahead of the storm surge tomorrow, here's the potential coastline of Lincolnshire in 600–5000 years according to http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n4/abs/nclimate2923.html … ...pic.twitter.com/FdgjNpVGWu
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have been thru storm surges; stat safe, Caitlin. %%robert
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Thanks Robert; fortunately live a fair way inland so shouldn't be an issue, though in long term it'll be a seaside town :(
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@caitlinrgreen This is where myths come from, isn't it? -
@HipBookfairy Has to be, surely---esp when flooding sometimes helped by a tsunami...! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide … -
@caitlinrgreen Folklore/folk memory associated with post Pleistocene sea level changes and ancient volcanic activity known here in Oz. -
@HipBookfairy Yes, saw an article recently on here (your post?)---fascinating! -
@caitlinrgreen Not mine. Maybe somebody I know.
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@caitlinrgreen@BorthwickDave#submergedforest We have one on the Solway too with peat & clay http://www.solwayshorestories.co.uk/shore-stories/the-submerged-forest/ …pic.twitter.com/HWo417QlBz
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@solwaywalker@BorthwickDave Very nice, thank you! :)
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this first being in the local news when I was small helped ignite my fascination with such things :)
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It's utterly bewitching :)
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@caitlinrgreen wonderful! I feel somehow all this should be better "known" :) -
@CatherineEsse Same! It's pretty amazing, tbh! :)
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@caitlinrgreen@JonathanNichol4 That looks like Skaro in the original Dr Who - scarey! -
@HarryKeogh5@JonathanNichol4 Mablethorpe as Skaro...! Nice idea! It is a weird landscape on the coast there :) -
@caitlinrgreen@HarryKeogh5@JonathanNichol4 Mablethorpe beach as a set would have made a change from the customary disused quarry! ;)
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