The image titled "LittleDyke4_Combined", as well as images LittleDyke5, LittleDyke5B and LittleDyke6, show two stakes. Each stake marks a did site where the 
submerged trees were found. Images LittleDyke7 to LittleDyke12 show post-glacial outwash mounds cut through by a small creek called Meadow Brook.


Image 1834_LittleDyke_B-12-4_Page_3 shows an early dyke at the mouth of Meadow Brook. At onetime Meadow Brook would have flowed through a small salt marsh.




Possible background material for the submerged forest at Little Dyke. 


The two post glacial processes described below appear to be involved. Process #1 (a raised out-wash terrace) probably occurred before process #2 
(the formation of Minas Basin salt marshes). It is also possible that small rivers were cutting pathways through the terrace during the period the salt
 marshes were forming.A small brook called Meadow Brook flows through the "dig" area.


Process #1) A discontinuous raised glacial out-wash terrace formed along the north shore of the Minas basin when the glacial ice started to dissipation in the late 
Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million to 10,000 years ago) .

Page 703 of
Taken from the article A Raised Fluviomarine Outwash Terrace, North Shore of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, by Donald J. P Swift and Harold W. Borns, Jr., Journal 
of Geology, V 75, 1967 


“The Five Islands Formation extends along the sedimentary upland from Advocate Harbour to Truro, where it merges with the valley train of the Salmon River.
 To the south and west, it passes beneath the sea to merge with the out-wash sheet which floors much of the Bay of Fundy (Swift and Lyall, in preparation).”




Process #2) Formation of salt marshes in the Minas Basin

Page 978 of 
Amos, C. L. 1978. The post-glacial evolution of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia-a sedimentological interpretation. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 48 (3). 

“From 6300 years B.P. to the present, sedimentation became progressively more dominant in the marginal regions and in the developing intertidal areas. 
The formation of the first extensive salt marshes began early in this period, and transgressed shoreward with the increasing height of high water.”