New discovery of submerged forest remains in Shenhu bay, Fujian Province, and its environmental significance

The authors have made a further investigation on the tidal-zone paleoforest remains found in the Shenhu bay,Fujian Province.By surveying (scale of 1:500) and numbering of the remains,65 tree trunks were found.They are relatively concentrated in three different regions from south to north.Their growing ages ranged from 45 a to 100a. 22 ancient trunks‘ sections with low degree of carbonization show that the paleoforest was composed of Keteleeria Carr., Morus L.and Gleditsia L.^14C dating shows that the paleoforest was living in 9420-6760 aBP.Later it stopped developing and was buried by the alluvial aggradation caused by the sea level rise.

New discovery of submerged forest remains in Shenhu bay, Fujian Province, and its environmental significance

The authors have made a further investigation on the tidal-zone paleoforest remains found in the Shenhu bay, Fujian Province. By surveying (scale of 1 : 500) and numbering of the remains, 65 tree trunks were found. They are relatively concentrated in three different regions from south to north. Their growing ages ranged from 45 a to 100 a.22 ancient trunks' sections with low degree of carbonization show that the paleoforest was composed of Keteleeria Carr.,Morus L. and Gleditsia L. 14C dating shows that the paleoforest was living in 9 420 6760 aBP. Later it stopped developing and was buried by the alluvial aggradation caused by the sea level rise.