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Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2022 10:16:08 GMT -7
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2023 10:31:40 GMT -7
Alabama Pet Wood That's quite a photo essay, and all that in a couple hundred acres. The color variety is amazing for a small area as compared to here. Thanks for the show. This site is at the old 350'- 380' elevation shoreline of an ancient ocean Mr. Larry. The mill pond has a 300 foot long 16 feet tall and 10 feet thick dam made mostly out of 100-300 pound chunks of pet wood. It is filled with pet wood. This site is the terminus of a 150 mile long cove starting west and ending here at the east. Prevailing winds are from the west. It appears logs got trapped at/in the mill pond when the ocean was receding and logs got jammed at the mouth of the narrow gorge and trapped them. North is up. Water flow drainage is south and down. Site is a volcanic clay aquifer that is 3 counties in size. The volcanic clay must have done the petrifying... To find the site I simply sampled creeks staring 50 miles downstream at bridge crossings in the area going upstream for increased wood occurrence till the source was found. Out of 15 creeks this one seems to supply 90% of the downstream wood. A creek that cuts thru the dense deposit. Adjacent and feeder creeks also rich in wood.
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2023 11:25:47 GMT -7
Didn't we decide they had been washed there when Chicxlub impacted Yucatan 65 million years ago? It would be neat to identify the plants!
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