Miracle de la nature et des éléments déchainés…
ATLANTIDE – Une forêt préhistorique déterrée par la tempête au pays de Galles | Big Browser
▻http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/02/21/atlantide-une-foret-prehistorique-deterree-par-la-tempete-au
Dans la baie de Cardigan, sur la côte ouest du pays de Galles, les rafales de vent à répétition ont déplacé des milliers de tonnes de sables sur les plages, découvrant des dizaines de souches d’arbres vieilles de plusieurs milliers d’années.
… et marronnier pour journaliste en mal de copie (et privé de sa documentation…)
Submerged Forest
▻http://www.ceredigioncoastpath.org.uk/submerged.html
The location of Borth’s submerged forest is a well known secret. It stretches intermittently for two to three miles along the shore between Ynys-las and Borth and lies about half-way between high and low water. What makes it a secret is that it is normally hidden under a layer of sand and is only exposed under certain circumstances.
On the rare occasions when it is fully exposed a flattened expanse of peat containing the remains of numerous prostrate trees is revealed. Pine (Pinus), alder (Alnus), oak (Quercus) and Birch (Betula) have all been identified. The root systems of the larger trees are generally spread horizontally, though some also grow downwards. This is typical of trees growing in fen woods where the high-water table keeps all the tree roots with the exception of alder in the aerated surface layers of the peat.
Avec des photos encore plus belles.
Et la mention d’une source de 1938…
Most of the information contained on this page comes from the notes made by F. N. Cambell James, as published in “ The Submerged Forest at Both and Ynys-las, Cardiganshire
Data for the Study of Post-Galacial History no.1 ” by H. Godwin & L. Newton, 1938.
La légende, similaire à celle de la ville d’Ys, dans les guides de voyages en Pays de Galles
▻http://www.visitwales.com/things-to-do/activities/walking-hiking/wales-coast-path/david-atkinson-wcp2
And as the sandy silence
Stays with me till I sleep,
The bells of Cantre’r Gwaelod
Are ringing in the deep.
Et l’article de WP ▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantre'r_Gwaelod