Posted on 12/10/2010 9:35:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Ick. :’)
In “American Pie II” there was a nice aerial shot of Grand Haven, but the giant rocks in the background of the house where the boys were painting look were left coast. :’)
Probably we’re missing the obvious, that the footprints are of some critter like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
The Pacific beaches were either coarse, sharp sand or pebbly; had sand dollars, lots of shells, and mucho agate, many of the mossy variety...and also black sands placer deposits that could be panned by an optimistic teenager.
The Southern beaches around Pass Christian were pretty, but they were the ‘icky’ ones: JUST SAND; almost nothing else. Miles and miles of broad expanses of icky, yucky, hot, prickly sand to get in your shoes and swimsuit.
The Carolina beaches also had lots of sand, but a completely different texture to it that wasn't unpleasant; and were littered with shells, “beach glass”, and interesting rocks.
Local, free newspapers don’t always express themselves accurately! Equally, what they report is not necessarily ‘news’! The ‘Formby Footprints’ have been the subject of on-going, detailed research for more than twenty years! However, perhaps I may answer some of the comments raised.....
Between about seven and five thousand years ago there was a barrier-island protected, muddy, intertidal lagoon at what is now Formby Point, Northwest England. Over a period of some two thousand years favourable weather conditions occasionally allowed the tracks left by animals, birds and Mesolithic-Neolithic human hunter-gatherers to be baked hard into these tidal mud strata. During the Bronze Age, however, there was a westerly progradation of the coastline, and for at least three and a half thousand years these laminated silts and their imprints are known to have been have been sealed in and covered by land. But now, rising sea levels are eroding Formby Point and uncovering the palaeo-landscape and the ancient Holocene sediments. However, these silt exposures and their contents are ephemeral; the very sea and tidal forces that uncover them bring about their inevitable destruction.
The ‘six-foot cattle’ mentioned by the reporter refers to the tracks of the aurochs, a large and ferocious species of wild cattle which was hunted to extinction in Britain by the end of the Bronze Age, some three thousand years ago.
Ikhnos
Thank you for your informative answer!
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