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Scientists: Long-Buried Ice Age Forest Offers Climate Change Clues All Things Considered, Debbie Elliot, February 9, 2018 https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584116280/scientists-long-buried-ice-age-forest-offers-climate-change-clues https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/2018/02/21/587519897 Underwater forest in the Gulf acts as climate change time capsule Times-Picayune, NOLACom News, February, 12, 2018 http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/02/underwater_forest_in_the_gulf.html Alabama's 60,000-year-old underwater forest spills its secrets in new documentary, ALCom News, June 25, 2017 http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/06/underwater_forest_discovered_alabama.html Gonzalez, S., Bentley Sr, S.J., DeLong, K.L., Xu, K., Obelcz, J., Truong, J., Harley, G.L., Reese, C.A. and Caporaso, A., 2017. Facies Reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene Cypress Forest Discovered on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 67, p. 133–146. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4369196-DeLong-Paper.html http://www.gcags.org/exploreanddiscover/2017/00196_gonzalez_et_al.pdf Faught, M.K. and Donoghue, J.F., 1997. Marine inundated archaeological sites and paleofluvial systems: examples from a karst‐controlled continental shelf setting in Apalachee Bay, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Geoarchaeology, 12(5), pp. 417-458. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.211.1206&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/46c6/3f837e40f489e80397d8f52a751f046d91f0.pdf A related paper is: Archer, A.W., Elrick, S., Nelson, W.J. and DiMichele, W.A., 2016, Cataclysmic burial of Pennsylvanian Period coal swamps in the Illinois Basin: Hypertidal sedimentation during Gondwanan glacial melt-water pulses. In Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology: Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication (Vol. 47, pp. 217-231). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299407830_Cataclysmic_burial_of_Pennsylvanian_Period_coal_swamps_in_the_Illinois_Basin_Hypertidal_sedimentation_during_Gondwanan_glacial_melt-water_pulses https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/30890/2016-ArcherEtAl MeltwaterPulsesLPIA IAS.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Yours, Paul H.