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02/18/2010 11:42:52 AM · #1 |
Oregon's Ghost Forest
Ghosts are found along the Oregon and Washington coasts. They are ghost trees standing upright in dead forests scattered up and down the coasts that are silent reminders of an ominous and very fatal threat. The ghost forests are found in low lying coastal areas.
In their silence they scream loudly of an unimaginable, deadly calamity of enormous proportions awaiting the Pacific Northwest.
That calamity has a name. It is called Cascadia.
You see, what is about to happen has happened dozens of times before. The trees are trying to warn us. But will we listen? The clock is ticking.
DPCers  Zoomdak and charliebaker literally live in the middle of the danger zone on Cannon Beach about 60 miles north of this ghost forest.
The modest pictures in the above gallery contain the remains of a 2,000 year old forest that first became exposed on the beach in Neskowin, Oregon some 20 years ago after pounding winter storms washed away thousands of tons of beach sand. They are sitka spruce which have grown along the Oregon/Washington coasts for thousands of years.
Here is a much better view of the ghost forest taken during a 2008 exposure event:
Ghost Forest in 2008
They were buried so suddenly and completely that their stumps were perfectly preserved in an oxygen-less environment underground that was suddenly now below sea level. Today those remaining exposed stumps are covered in barnacles. However, most stumps have been washed away to become driftwood on distant beaches.
Most likely these trees were buried during a subduction earthquake off the Oregon coast. That quake caused the entire coastline to slump 10s of feet and an ensuing tsunami minutes later buried the forest in debris, chocking off it's supply of oxygen and perfectly preserving their remains just like the day they were buried.
In just minutes, from their majestic viewpoint above Oregon's rugged coastline these trees became buried under the ocean bottom in Davey Jones' locker.
Let's hope Zoomdak and charliebaker do not suffer the same fate.
Message edited by author 2010-02-18 11:52:05.
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02/18/2010 11:46:45 AM · #2 |
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02/18/2010 12:39:56 PM · #3 |
Cascadia, Rainier, and Yellowstone
The three largest potential geological disasters that the US has to face. |
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02/18/2010 12:44:33 PM · #4 |
Nice stuff Steve. Good to see you posting. Did you have fun in the wilderness of SE Oregon?
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02/18/2010 01:05:27 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Nice stuff Steve. Good to see you posting. Did you have fun in the wilderness of SE Oregon? |
My trip there was cut short last weekend, but I will be returning to complete my first dedicated safari to the area... perhaps this weekend.
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02/18/2010 01:14:39 PM · #6 |
| Great stuff, Steve! I apologize that this was the first thing that popped into my head as I was reading through your post. ;-) |
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02/18/2010 01:58:53 PM · #7 |
Perhaps these fine folks will come to the Oregon coastline to lament the loss of coastal sitka spruce near the beach from over-logging...
Then maybe, just maybe, during a particularly loud wailing session they will experience... wellll... Cascadia! ;)
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