Efforts are under way to designate site of submerged forest off the Alabama coast a marine sanctuaryWhen divers jump into a particular stretch of water off the coast of Alabama, they travel back to a time before humans arrived in the new world.Submerged below the waters are the remains of a cypress tree forest that grew 60,000 years ago, but was inundated by the Gulf of Mexico and preserved from decomposition beneath sediment. Nothing like Alabama's underwater forest, in terms of age or scale, has ever been found. Continue reading...
'One of a kind': calls to protect Alabama's 60,000-year-old underwater forest
20. ledna 2021 12:01
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/20/ancient-underwater-forest-alabama-coast
Zdroj: The Guardian