NewsDoober
04-15-2008, 12:57 PM
Beachgoers during this sunny April weekend are in for a treat, thanks to Oregon’s wild winter.
High winds, heavy rain and powerful surf pounding the Oregon Coast recently uncovered a ghost forest known mostly through legendary tales in the small community of Neskowin.
The ancient tree stumps are usually covered in deep sand. But recent storms washed away a great deal of the beach and once again uncovered the ancient tree stumps that locals call “the ghost forest.”
An article in the Oregon Coast Beach Connection (http://www.beachconnection.net/news/omyst040608_743.php) described the ghost forest as a “downright spectacular oddity.”
“They [tree stumps] look somewhat like old, ragged pilings leftover from something manmade - but they are, in fact, stumps of a forest some 2,000 years ago or so. As many as 100 are sometimes visible in various shapes and sizes.”
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According to the article, the theory is that “around 2,000 years ago a massive, cataclysmic earthquake abruptly dropped this forest possibly more than 25 feet. Then, somehow, they [tree stumps] were preserved by sand and mud, rather then being destroyed and scattered, as natural erosion might’ve done… Either a tsunami brought the sand in or the earthquake rattled up so much soil and sand it covered the forest.”- kgw (http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_040908_news_ghost_forest_neskowin.4968c130.htm l)
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High winds, heavy rain and powerful surf pounding the Oregon Coast recently uncovered a ghost forest known mostly through legendary tales in the small community of Neskowin.
The ancient tree stumps are usually covered in deep sand. But recent storms washed away a great deal of the beach and once again uncovered the ancient tree stumps that locals call “the ghost forest.”
An article in the Oregon Coast Beach Connection (http://www.beachconnection.net/news/omyst040608_743.php) described the ghost forest as a “downright spectacular oddity.”
“They [tree stumps] look somewhat like old, ragged pilings leftover from something manmade - but they are, in fact, stumps of a forest some 2,000 years ago or so. As many as 100 are sometimes visible in various shapes and sizes.”
http://www.kgw.com/bi/images/story_arrow.gif Slideshow: More photos of ‘ghost forest’ (http://www.kgw.com/perl/common/slideshow/sspop.pl?recid=9088&nextimage=2)
According to the article, the theory is that “around 2,000 years ago a massive, cataclysmic earthquake abruptly dropped this forest possibly more than 25 feet. Then, somehow, they [tree stumps] were preserved by sand and mud, rather then being destroyed and scattered, as natural erosion might’ve done… Either a tsunami brought the sand in or the earthquake rattled up so much soil and sand it covered the forest.”- kgw (http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_040908_news_ghost_forest_neskowin.4968c130.htm l)
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