A submerged forest that lies beneath a lake can also be formed by the blockage of a river valley by either a landslide or manmade dam.
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There are remains of a submerged forest underneath the sand at Gr�ve d'Azette that show how the parish has reduced in size as the sea has advanced.
13.
The "'Fossil Forest "'is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.
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At very low tide and after heavy storms the remains of an ancient, submerged forest can be seen on the beach, consisting of stumps of birch, fir, hazel and oak trees.
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A "'submerged forest "'is the in place ( " in situ " ) remains of trees ( especially tree stumps ) that lie submerged beneath a bay, sea, ocean, lake, or other body of water.
16.
Analysis of the Sweet Track's timbers has aided research into Neolithic Era dendrochronology; comparisons with wood from the River Trent and a submerged forest at Stolford enabled a fuller mapping of the rings, and their relationship with the climate of the period.
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Bronze Age barrows at Selworthy Beacon and an Iron Age enclosure at Furzebury Brake, west of the town show evidence of prehistoric occupation of the area, although there is also possible evidence in the intertidal area, where the remains of a submerged forest still exist.
18.
A submerged forest in St . Ou�n's Bay between L'Ouzi�re slipway and Le Port Slipway has stumps of Birch and Alder ( Betula sp and Alnus sp ) from 1980 BC . Legends record that the sea encroached on the forest in the fifteenth century.
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Researchers need to check if stumps from a Mesolithic or Palaeolithic submerged forest are to be found in the area . ( If they do, the possibility of one sticking up through, e . g ., a shipwreck and giving misleading dates must be considered .)
20.
In fact ( just spotted this ) the use of another interesting snippet that should be included-that there is a submerged forest beneath the Doom Bar ( see p . 3 )-favours a long existence for sandbars here since submerged forests don't survive if they're exposed.
