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The Ashfall Story
U of Nebraska State Museum & Nebraska Game and Parks Commission ^ | 2010 | Dr. Mike Voorhies

Posted on 05/10/2010 4:23:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

About 12 million years ago, a volcano in southwest Idaho spread a blanket of ash over a very large area. One or two feet of this powdered glass covered the flat savannah-like grasslands of northeastern Nebraska.

Most of the animals which lived here survived the actual ashfall, but as they continued to graze on the ash covered grasses, their lungs began to fill up with the abrasive powder. Soon their lungs became severely damaged and they began to die.

The smaller animals died first (smaller lung capacities) and finally, after perhaps three to five weeks, the last of the rhinos perished.Their bodies were quickly covered by the blowing and drifting ash.

Undisturbed except by an occasional scavenging meat-eater, the skeletons of these animals are preserved in their death positions, complete with evidence of their last meals in their mouths and stomachs and their last steps preserved in the sandstone below.

Ashfall wildlife and the impending cloud of volcanic ash. The Ashfall skeletons are found in an ancient waterhole as depicted here. Fossil evidence at the site reveals complete, articulated skeletons of large mammals, birds, and turtles, as well as seeds of grasses and trees.

(Excerpt) Read more at ashfall.unl.edu ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; idaho; nebraska; volcano; volcanoes
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To: Monkey Face

What can I say? Perhaps, “ENCORE!!!”

;o])


21 posted on 05/10/2010 5:33:03 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for my army hero grandson, and for the intrepid CG explorer!)
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To: null and void

Meant for you, Nully....I was overwhelmed by the memories...


22 posted on 05/10/2010 5:35:18 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for my army hero grandson, and for the intrepid CG explorer!)
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To: Monkey Face

What happens in Vegas...


23 posted on 05/10/2010 5:40:11 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 473 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: SunkenCiv

We’ve visited Ashfall several times and have always found it fascinating. It’s rare that you can get so close to the exhibits being unearthed. Thank you Dr. Voorhies and your collegues.
Lew, in Kansas


24 posted on 05/10/2010 5:42:44 PM PDT by laterldf
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To: null and void
Troll from before your time. Heck, I barely remember him.

Ah, Ash. I remember him. I used to IM him back on the AOL days. Actually a nice guy, but totally out of whack, politically. I wonder what happened to him?

25 posted on 05/10/2010 5:55:07 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: null and void

Were we in Vegas? *sigh* It felt more like Paradise.


26 posted on 05/10/2010 6:01:56 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for my army hero grandson, and for the intrepid CG explorer!)
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To: SunkenCiv; null and void; Monkey Face; MikefromOhio; OwenKellogg
Whilst ya'll be reminiscing with such gay reparte`, seems like you missed the most significant circumstance of the event:

the last of the rhinos perished...

27 posted on 05/10/2010 7:19:00 PM PDT by bigheadfred (If I've said it once, I've said it a million times...)
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To: null and void

I thought this might have been a dublicate of this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2510722/posts

‘I was just lying there when some ash fell on top of me,” she said. ‘


28 posted on 05/10/2010 11:06:11 PM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Ah, Ash. I remember him. I used to IM him back on the AOL days. Actually a nice guy, but totally out of whack, politically. I wonder what happened to him?

What was the name of the guy who religiously issued the ash alerts?. Something with an "M" I think?

29 posted on 05/11/2010 6:06:19 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: John O

Morgan? Jim Thompson?


30 posted on 05/11/2010 8:59:12 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Don Morgan!! (I checked the freeper lexicon)

I should have thought to look there in the first place


31 posted on 05/11/2010 10:45:20 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Monkey Face

If the whole world wound up buried in volcanic ash, ending our civilization, thousands of years from now archaeologists would find concealed caches of chocolate. ;’)


32 posted on 05/11/2010 7:42:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: American Constitutionalist

;’)


33 posted on 05/11/2010 7:44:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: null and void

is a saying Bill Bennett no longer believes.


34 posted on 05/11/2010 7:51:18 PM PDT by xp38
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To: null and void

Now there is performance art I can get behind.


35 posted on 05/11/2010 7:55:12 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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36 posted on 09/01/2012 10:20:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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