Primeval forest discovered in Gulf of Mexico

[talisman]

Am I the only one that read this: "The forest contains trees so well-preserved that when they are cut, they still smell like fresh Cypress sap," and really wants to find out if true? How fucking cool would it be to smell something that old?

I dunno, I smelled Leah once and it wasn't that great.

[JC316]

Nice stuff, but not revealing it for so long was a serious dick move. The damned thing is going to be gone in no time, so who give a shit if a few looters come in? He robbed so many people of a chance to see something so incredibly awesome.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Nice stuff, but not revealing it for so long was a serious dick move. The damned thing is going to be gone in no time, so who give a shit if a few looters come in? He robbed so many people of a chance to see something so incredibly awesome.

and he had no clue what he was down there.

[Ratt]

I dunno, I smelled Leah once and it wasn't that great.

LMAO!

Closer to 6,000. Radiometric dating is flawed at best.

All that science-y stuff was created by God to test our faith.

[racrguy]

LMAO!



All that science-y stuff was created by God to test our faith.

Satan tempts us.

[Ratt]

Satan tempts us.

We must resist. Prayer meeting tonight?

[Bputacoma]

video!!!

http://www.livescience.com/37977-und...iscovered.html

[racrguy]

We must resist. Prayer meeting tonight?

Sure. You bring the goats blood this time.

[Ratt]

Sure. You bring the goats blood this time.

Shit. Gotta stop by the Christian Sciences store, then.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

Sure. You bring the goats blood this time.

dont forget your goat skin leggings

[Strychnine]

How quickly would the water have to rise to leave them intact and not subject to erosion?

~1000 yrs?

There are a number of underwater forests around the world, in Cornwall England, Scotland, Japan, and a number of other locations throughout the world. They have an approximates date of 12,000 years in Cornwall, 6,000 years old in Scotland, 7,500 in Japan, 2,500 off the coast of Alabama. Interestingly these forests seem to all hold dates very close to the meltwater pulses (periods of rapid glacial melting).

Figure 1. Generalized sea level rise since the last ice age showing several meltwater pulses (MWP).
MWP-1A0: c.19,600-18,800 years ago
MWP-1A: 14,600 to 13,800 years ago
MWP-1B: 11,000-8,800 years ago
MWP-1C, ~8,200-7,600 years ago

According to Nick Tew, a geologist with the Geological Survey of Alabama, the stumps had likely been preserved for millenia by virtue of being buried beneath a few feet of sand, which prevented oxygen from reaching them.

[jyro]

http://video-embed.al.com/services/p...2DPq27tF5ZamzW

[Kimmypie]

That's so freakin cool!

[90MarkVII]

You mean which craft proves otherwise.

No way they can be certain on the carbon dating thing.

WITCHcraft.
It's one word AND you spelled it wrong.