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  2. Deep-sea wood - Wikipedia

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    Deep-sea wood is the term for wood which sinks to the ocean floor. These wood-falls develop deep sea ecosystems. Deep-sea wood supports unique forms of deep sea community life including chemo-synthetic bacteria. Sources of carbon for these deep sea ecosystems are not limited to sunken wood, but also include kelp and the remains of whales. Much ...

  3. Conservation and restoration of waterlogged wood - Wikipedia

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    Waterlogged wood is a wooden object that has been submerged or partially submerged in water and has affected the original intended purpose or look of the object. Waterlogged wood objects can also include wood found within moist soil from archaeological sites, underwater archaeology, maritime debris, or damaged wood objects.

  4. Boundary Waters - Wikipedia

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    The Boundary Waters, also called the Quetico-Superior Country, is a region of wilderness straddling the Canada–United States border between Ontario and Minnesota, in the area just west of Lake Superior.

  5. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    The BWCAW within the Superior National Forest. The BWCAW extends along 150 miles (240 km) of the Canadian border in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. The combined region of the BWCAW, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Ontario's Quetico and La Verendrye provincial parks make up a large area of contiguous wilderness lakes and forests called the "Quetico-Superior country ...

  6. Mystery water hose in woods of U.P. became source of ... - AOL

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    Kayln Hudson-Store, 44, of Greenland Township, and her daughter Anneli Store,10, fill jugs of unregulated water from an old trailside artesian well near Ontonagon in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on ...

  7. Cayman Trough - Wikipedia

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    The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett Deep and Bartlett Trough) is a complex transform fault zone pull-apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge, the Mid-Cayman Rise, on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. [1]

  8. Driftwood - Wikipedia

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    Woods with resinous qualities, such as cedar, are preferred for their lengthier burning times. [citation needed] The "Old Man of the Lake" in Crater Lake, Oregon is a full-size tree that has been bobbing vertically in the lake for more than a century. Due to the cold water of the lake, the tree has been well preserved. [5]

  9. Spring (hydrology) - Wikipedia

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    The forcing of the spring to the surface can be the result of a confined aquifer in which the recharge area of the spring water table rests at a higher elevation than that of the outlet. Spring water forced to the surface by elevated sources are artesian wells. This is possible even if the outlet is in the form of a 300-foot-deep (91 m) cave.