Re: Polystrate trees

Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swac.edu)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:07:30 -0800

Wayne writes:

A catastrophic flood would have removed fragile rootlets.

Wayne, Are you pretty sure about that? we have lots of evidence to the
point after Mt. St. Helens. Plenty of small rootlets preserved on trees
transported and deposited upright there. See the paper by Fritz in Geology,
v. 8, p. 586-588 for example.
Art
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