[Rockhounds] Researchers study 10,000 year old buried forest

[Peter Sparks]

I suspect it's the same Michigan buried forest I read about a while ago
in the newspapers.  The researchers had been contacted by the quarry
operators and were able to study the site for a full year before they
decided to release the news.  The day after a newspaper article was
printed a stump turned up missing.

There are also documented times where sand dunes slump and bury trees
and other debris in sand on the lake bottom (Sleeping Bear Dunes, 1914,
1970, 1995).  Here's a web link talking about the sand slides:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1998/fs020-98/

The water in the lakes is really cold and I suspect there's quite a lot
of once-living things buried in the lake sediment.

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http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/breaking/2000/forest.html


I don't often hear about geology on the radio, but this morning my
favorite drive time DJ was talking about a forest buried in sand by the
retreating glaciers in Northern Michigan. 

Kreigh

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