Why are there whale fossils in California mountains?

The Christian Science Monitor. ^ | September 21, 2015 | Story Hinckley,

[george76]

Construction workers in California's Santa Cruz mountains were subject to a surprise delay last week when a team of archaeologists took over the site to remove an ancient whale fossil.

The project site was expected to have a high potential for archaeological finds, so a monitor was assigned to the Scotts Valley development and found the fossil amid construction vehicles on Sept. 4.

This project site is not the only one in California with fossils

...

Since the 19th century, paleontologists have been studying the “Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed” near Bakersfield, California, where fossils and bones of ancient whales, seals, dolphins, sharks, and fish have been uncovered.

...

At 25 feet long, the archaeologists assigned to the project believe the remains belong to a mysticete whale, an ancient ancestor of the baleen whale.

[ckilmer]

ok that makes sense.

[ckilmer]

but that does not explain the california whales in the moutains.

because I don’t think the glaciers got that far south.

[MeganC]

Glaciers were as far south as Death Valley which had once been a big lake filled by glacial runoff.

[dsc]

“So the Earth really is 4.5 billion years old. “

It seems so. Still, one does well to reflect that God is not bound by time.

After one gets past the fact that God created everything, just exactly how He did it seems, well, secondary at best.

[tacticalogic]

After one gets past the fact that God created everything, just exactly how He did it seems, well, secondary at best.

This isn't about how, it's about what.

[maine-iac7]

Same reason there’s shark’s teeth on Jack’s Peak - up above Carmel -

[dsc]

“This isn’t about how, it’s about what.”

How so? Whether He brought things into being instantly or took billions of years to do it, what He created is what we have.

[Normandy]

Maybe this can give a clue:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface

[tacticalogic]

what He created is what we have.

And we're still a long way from understanding exactly with that is. But we're working on it.

[gleeaikin]

Here are other science oriented events to take place this Sunday and Monday. Perhaps this should be posted as a separate thread. The link below has several other related links at that site.

http://news.yahoo.com/super-blood-moon-stargazers-rare-show-024044296.html

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe the whale fossils just like the climate. ;’)

[wildbill]

Mysticete whales were the ‘walking catfish’ of their era?

[Fledermaus]

It’s climate change! lol

Really, what idiot doesn’t know basic facts that everything was once under sea water. Where do idiots like this think the salt flats in Utah came from or the Great Salt Lake?

[Fred Nerks]

Taphonomy of fossil whales in the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru

Distribution of fossil whales on Cerro Blanco, superimposed on an aerial photo. Red dots correspond to individual whales (N = 180). Black dots correspond to specimens that cannot be determined to be complete whales, usually because of post-exposure erosional damage (N = 166). It appears likely that most whales were essentially complete before the effects of modern erosion processes.

Baleen from Fernanda. Left - surface view of the baleen (~ 8 cm from top to bottom of photo). Upper right - cross section of baleen. The dark colored v-shaped structures are sheets of baleen. Lower right - microscopic enlargement of surface of a sheet of baleen. Notice the fine ridges preserved in the baleen. We found fossilized baleen in several other whales also, but the baleen was best preserved in this whale. This type of preservation requires rapid burial, before the baleen tissue decayed. Fernanda was also buried before the spinal cord decayed, as black mineral replacement of the spinal cord was present in its normal position within the vertebral column (but nowhere else).

source

[Fred Nerks]

Stratigraphic distribution of whales on Cerro Blanco study area. The horizontal centerline of each whale symbol is located at the stratigraphic position of an individual whale. Whales are mostly in the diatomaceous siltstone in upper part of section. The lower part of section (120 meters, not shown here) is mostly sandstone, and contains only a few whales. Whales are distributed throughout the diatomaceous sediment, and not in discrete, mass death units.

An unexcavated, complete whale:

methinks earthquake-tsunami. Water receded suddenly, then within a short period, the return waves over 260meters, lifted and covered the stranded whales with a thin layer of silt.

Similar phenomenon is evidenced in the Whale Valley, Egypt.

[Fred Nerks]

Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks glee’.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice pic!

[Hot Tabasco]

where did all of that extra water come from and where did it all go?

If God created the rains which caused the flood then it's reasonable to accept that he took the water away after he sent his message.............

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, those whales DROWNED in the GREAT FLOOD, and you know it. /s