Divers find prehistoric forest dating back 10,000 years submerged in North Sea off Norfolk coast
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Divers find prehistoric forest dating back 10,000 years submerged in North Sea off Norfolk coast
Divers find prehistoric forest dating back 10,000 years submerged in North Sea off Norfolk coast
The remains of a prehistoric forest dating back 10,000 years has been found by amateur divers off the coast of Norfolk.
The trees, which once stretched from England to Germany, have been submerged for millennia beneath the North Sea and were covered by layers of sand before being revealed by stormy seas.
Divers Dawn Watson and Rob Spray, from volunteer group Seasearch, were studying marine life just 300m from the shore at Cley when they made the discovery.
“I set off north and I’d been swimming for about 15 minutes before I came to anything,” Ms Watson, 45, told the BBC.
“It was a great wave of black stuff in front of me and it took me a while to work out what it was but it was just wood, shaped like a wave.
“To start with I thought it was a piece of wreck because it looked like a piece of hull…it’s the remains of a forest, probably oak trees that have been knocked flat, presumably by outwash from a glacier.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/divers-find-prehistoric-forest-dating-back-10000-years-submerged-in-north-sea-off-norfolk-coast-10003703.html
Shocked diver finds amazing 10000-year-old FOREST under North SeaDaily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2925776/Shocked-diver-finds-amazing-10-000-year-old-FOREST-hidden-North-Sea-originally-stretched-far-Europe.html
Nature experts have discovered a remarkable submerged forest
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The remains of a prehistoric forest dating back 10,000 years has been found by amateur divers off the coast of Norfolk.
The trees, which once stretched from England to Germany, have been submerged for millennia beneath the North Sea and were covered by layers of sand before being revealed by stormy seas.
Divers Dawn Watson and Rob Spray, from volunteer group Seasearch, were studying marine life just 300m from the shore at Cley when they made the discovery.
“I set off north and I’d been swimming for about 15 minutes before I came to anything,” Ms Watson, 45, told the BBC.
“It was a great wave of black stuff in front of me and it took me a while to work out what it was but it was just wood, shaped like a wave.
“To start with I thought it was a piece of wreck because it looked like a piece of hull…it’s the remains of a forest, probably oak trees that have been knocked flat, presumably by outwash from a glacier.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/divers-find-prehistoric-forest-dating-back-10000-years-submerged-in-north-sea-off-norfolk-coast-10003703.html
Shocked diver finds amazing 10000-year-old FOREST under North SeaDaily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2925776/Shocked-diver-finds-amazing-10-000-year-old-FOREST-hidden-North-Sea-originally-stretched-far-Europe.html
Nature experts have discovered a remarkable submerged forest
https://plus.google.com/+BBCNews/posts/9uJ9xPC3JuQ
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