An ancient forest gobbled up by sea level rise 5,000 years ago has reemerged from the ocean for the first time in a long time!
How is that possible when see level is "inexorably" rising?
We used to think of this as just as an impenetrable forest actually this was a complex human environment, said Martin Bates, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Wales Trinity St. David, who oversees the excavation work in Borth on a beach he played on as a toddler. The floods have opened our eyes as to whats really out there.
Scanning the army of ghostly spikes protruding from the sand here one recent morning, Dr. Bates said it was as if nature were making a point: The recent torrential rains, linked by a growing number of climatologists to human-induced climate change, have provided an ancient laboratory to study how humans coped with catastrophic climate change in the past.
Indeed, across Britain, two consecutive years of exceptional winter weather have left in their wake some equally exceptional discoveries: from unexploded wartime bombs and Victorian shipwrecks to archaeological finds that are nearly a million years old. Scientists have barely kept up. Last winter was the wettest on record, according to the Met Office, the national weather service.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/science/a-sunken-kingdom-re-emerges.html?_r=1
How is that possible when see level is "inexorably" rising?
We used to think of this as just as an impenetrable forest actually this was a complex human environment, said Martin Bates, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Wales Trinity St. David, who oversees the excavation work in Borth on a beach he played on as a toddler. The floods have opened our eyes as to whats really out there.
Scanning the army of ghostly spikes protruding from the sand here one recent morning, Dr. Bates said it was as if nature were making a point: The recent torrential rains, linked by a growing number of climatologists to human-induced climate change, have provided an ancient laboratory to study how humans coped with catastrophic climate change in the past.
Indeed, across Britain, two consecutive years of exceptional winter weather have left in their wake some equally exceptional discoveries: from unexploded wartime bombs and Victorian shipwrecks to archaeological finds that are nearly a million years old. Scientists have barely kept up. Last winter was the wettest on record, according to the Met Office, the national weather service.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/science/a-sunken-kingdom-re-emerges.html?_r=1
