[Rockhounds] Long-Buried Alabama, Ice Age Forest Offers Climate Change Clues

[Paul]

Scientists: Long-Buried Ice Age Forest Offers Climate Change Clues
All Things Considered, Debbie Elliot, February 9, 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584116280/scientists-long-buried-ice-age-forest-offers-climate-change-clues
https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/2018/02/21/587519897

Underwater forest in the Gulf acts as climate change time capsule
Times-Picayune, NOLACom News, February, 12, 2018
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/02/underwater_forest_in_the_gulf.html

Alabama's 60,000-year-old underwater forest spills its secrets in new
documentary, ALCom News, June 25, 2017
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/06/underwater_forest_discovered_alabama.html

Gonzalez, S., Bentley Sr, S.J., DeLong, K.L., Xu, K., Obelcz, J., 
Truong, J.,
Harley, G.L., Reese, C.A. and Caporaso, A., 2017. Facies Reconstruction of
a Late Pleistocene Cypress Forest Discovered on the Northern Gulf of
Mexico Continental Shelf. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
Transactions, v. 67, p. 133-146.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4369196-DeLong-Paper.html
http://www.gcags.org/exploreanddiscover/2017/00196_gonzalez_et_al.pdf

Faught, M.K. and Donoghue, J.F., 1997. Marine inundated archaeological 
sites
and paleofluvial systems: examples from a karst???controlled continental 
shelf
setting in Apalachee Bay, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Geoarchaeology, 
12(5),
pp. 417-458.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.211.1206&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/46c6/3f837e40f489e80397d8f52a751f046d91f0.pdf

A related paper is:

Archer, A.W., Elrick, S., Nelson, W.J. and DiMichele, W.A., 2016,
Cataclysmic burial of Pennsylvanian Period coal swamps in the Illinois 
Basin:
 ??Hypertidal sedimentation during Gondwanan glacial melt-water pulses. In
Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology: Proceedings of the
 ??Tidalites 2012 Conference: International Association of Sedimentologists
 ??Special Publication (Vol. 47, pp. 217-231).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299407830_Cataclysmic_burial_of_Pennsylvanian_Period_coal_swamps_in_the_Illinois_Basin_Hypertidal_sedimentation_during_Gondwanan_glacial_melt-water_pulses
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/30890/2016-ArcherEtAl%20MeltwaterPulsesLPIA%20IAS.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Yours,

Paul H.