>>8067627>but my guess is the trees die because the roots drown.that's pretty much the size of it; unless the trees are among those species specifically adapted to grow and thrive in very wet/marshy/swampy conditions they effectively drown and eventually become ghost trees much like those in that image
a much more extreme example of the effect can be seen at the Neskowin Ghost Forest in Oregon, one of many ghost forests in the region, where a long time ago the local spruce forest was inundated and quickly killed off by mud and water most likely from a massive earthquake-triggered tsunami.
