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1757/1822 | Submarine forest of Mounts Bay noted by Rev W Borlase, hazel, and to a smaller extent of alder, elm and oak
Submitted by via Victoria History on Thu, 01/08/2019 - 00:00.
So far back as the year 1757 the submarine forest of Mounts Bay was noted by the Rev. W. Borlase, and was subsequently described by Dr. Boase in the year 1822. The latter represents it as buried beneath deposits of sand and gravel, the removal of which by the sea is constantly laying it bare the outward prolongation of the vegetable bed extending beneath the sea. Between Penzance and Newlyn he notes a bed of vegetable 1 See W. A. E. Ussher on ' The Recent Geology of Cornwall ' (articles reprinted from the Geol. Mag.), 1879 > anc * the Post-Tertiary Geology of Cornwall (printed for private circulation), 1879.read more »
161003 | A man has died after being pulled unconscious from the sea in Cornwall | West Briton
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