The drowned Mesolithic forest that appears at v v low tides at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire :) https://skegness.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/submerged-forest-and-village/ …pic.twitter.com/BTnhkHPzCK
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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 …
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
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
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
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
have been thru storm surges; stat safe, Caitlin. %%robert
Thanks Robert; fortunately live a fair way inland so shouldn't be an issue, though in long term it'll be a seaside town :(
like here, Caitlin. But we did get wicked wind...trees down, power out. Living on a hill has some downsides. %%robert
Similar portion of ancient forest found off Norfolk coast by divers---underwater pics here :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30905267 …pic.twitter.com/r45vkrnUom
Submerged forest stumps exposed at low tide on Borth Sands near Ynyslas, Ceredigion, Wales: http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Submerged_forest_at_Ynyslas,_Ceredigion.jpg …pic.twitter.com/EA6Ai7InM3
RT @caitlinrgreen: Submerged forest exposed at low tide on Borth / Ynyslas #Ceredigion Wales http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Submerged_forest_at_Ynyslas,_Ceredigion.jpg …pic.twitter.com/1STZBHzFlX
Also from Lincolnshire coastal zone, bone prob from Mammoth, c.14k yrs ago? Found Saltfleetby https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/133321 …pic.twitter.com/i4JOSMynPy
Mammoth remains also found on the Ingoldmells foreshore, again prob c.14,000 yrs old, this time a tooth :) http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayStandard.aspx?oid=228305 …
One of the first accounts of the submerged forest off the Lincolnshire coast, by de Serra in 1799:pic.twitter.com/1w0Y8P66gZ
Mitchell's 1765 chart of Lincs coast showing the "clay huts" (submerged forest) at Sutton #LincolnshireDaypic.twitter.com/ANna3IoRHI
@caitlinrgreen Thanks for the great posts to mark Lincolnshire Day - all truly fascinating!
@PartsOfLindsey My pleasure! Glad you like :)
A Mesolithic tree exposed by a very low tide at Trusthorpe, nr Mablethorpe, in 1984: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29450962@N08/4995022479 …pic.twitter.com/xpnP3E7BAP
A Mesolithic silver birch branch w/ the bark still attached, Trusthorpe beach, Lincs, 1984: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29450962@N08/5009395892 …pic.twitter.com/GpYSVp9aHG
A line of Mesolithic tree stumps heading off into the sea at Trusthrope, Lincolnshire: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29450962@N08/5008789677 …pic.twitter.com/A7IJL9UXqE
trees in line or a pier/wharf?
too early for the latter, I fear---remains of a drowned Mesolithic forest :)
ah, didn't realise were in situ! guess you can draw a line between any points! or maybe ancient creek bank?
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