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Figure 18.
Evidence for subsidence of coastal southwestern Washington. A g
host forest of cedar snags
protrudes through an intertidal marsh along the Copalis River. T
he man is standing on roots that mark
the present level of the ghost forest floor. The forest was kill
ed after being suddenly dropped into the intertidal zone about 3
00 years ago, perhaps at the same time as the subsidence of the
marshland shown in
Fig. 17. (Photo by B. F. Atwater)
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