II.—Subsidence in East Essex

Extract

That the latest movement of the south-east of England has been one of depression is evidenced by the numerous “submerged forests” which occur at intervals round the coast, ranging downwards, not only to half-tide level, but to beyond the lowest ebb; and therefore not explicable merely on the hypothesis of sheltering sandbars, or lines of dunes, even where such can be shown to have existed.