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Submerged forest

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A submerged forest is the in situ remains of trees (especially tree stumps) that lie submerged beneath a bay, sea, ocean, lake, or other body of water. [1]

16 relations: Blackpool Sands, Dartmouth, Doggerland, Erosion, Fossil wood, Great Lakes, In situ, Lake Huron, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Marine transgression, Nantucket Sound, Penparcau, Petrified wood, Polystrate fossil, Sea level rise, Tide, 2013–14 United Kingdom winter floods.

Blackpool Sands, Dartmouth

Blackpool Sands is a beach in Dartmouth, Devon, England named after the nearby village of Blackpool.

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Doggerland

Doggerland is the name of a land mass now beneath the southern North Sea that connected Great Britain to continental Europe.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Fossil wood

Fossil wood is wood that is preserved in the fossil record.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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In situ

In situ (often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position".

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Lake Huron

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Laurentide Ice Sheet

The Laurentide Ice Sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square kilometers, including most of Canada and a large portion of the northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs— from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present.

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Marine transgression

A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, resulting in flooding.

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Nantucket Sound

Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Penparcau

Penparcau is a village in Ceredigion near to the town of Aberystwyth, Wales, it is situated to the south of Aberystwyth.

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Petrified wood

Petrified wood (from the Greek root petro meaning "rock" or "stone"; literally "wood turned into stone") is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation.

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Polystrate fossil

A polystrate fossil is a fossil of a single organism (such as a tree trunk) that extends through more than one geological stratum.

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Sea level rise

A sea level rise is an increase in global mean sea level as a result of an increase in the volume of water in the world’s oceans.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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2013–14 United Kingdom winter floods

The 2013–2014 United Kingdom winter floods saw areas of the United Kingdom inundated following severe storms.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_forest

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