[ClearCase_guy]

These muted witnesses to an age practically before Mankind.

[SNIP]

He says these stumps are almost 4,000 years old.

Don't see too many journalists with a YEC viewpoint. Interesting.

[4buttons]

He says these stumps are almost 4,000 years old.

he says a hell of a lot more than that:

doomed creatures; last, desperate escape; a dreadful fate beneath the rest of the world; reduced to twisted, tortured shapes that scream silently

...my goodness.

[djf]

Sounds like one of the Cascadia events.

[Red Badger]

Ping!.....sorta............

[aimhigh]

The article can’t be correct. Now that global warming has raised sea levels, exposure wouldn’t be possible.

[razorback-bert]

I will be up that away this September and try to see for myself.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger

Roger Hart... says these stumps are almost 4,000 years old... "Curt Peterson and I published a radiocarbon on a sample taken from the Arch Cape stumps in 1998," Hart said. "The age is 3,660 with an error of 70. This means these trees died at that time, were buried in sand, and have been preserved under a cover of sand until now. From the photos it appears that the stumps are more extensively exposed now than in 1998."

So now they're 3,669 years old. [rimshot!] The RC age is *not* a reference to when the trees died, but rather to the age of the ring (or rings) which were tested. The catastrophe which buried all this stuff is less than that -- perchance 3,450 years? ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

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[RightWhale]

twisted, tortured shapes that scream silently from another epoch?

It was a dark and stormy night . . .

[balch3]

remnnants of Noah’s flood.

[uglybiker]

[xcamel]

I have a 380 million year old forest sticking out of the rocks about an hour south of me in NY...

see: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press/00-49pr.html

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[LibWhacker]

He says these stumps are almost 4,000 years old.

Finally, half-way through the article, some meat. Thought he'd never get around to telling us.

What killed them, anyhoo? The author never did get around to that.

[aruanan]

They are unintentional memorials to the grandiose forest that once stood here, now reduced to twisted, tortured shapes that scream silently from another epoch.

I don't think that anything but people or things made by them can be described as "grandiose."