The fragment of skull belonged to a young adult male
Posted on 07/12/2011 7:24:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Buried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains. Geologists recently discovered this roughly 56-million-year-old landscape using data gathered for oil companies.
"It looks for all the world like a map of a bit of a country onshore," said Nicky White, the senior researcher. "It is like an ancient fossil landscape preserved 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the seabed."
So far, the data have revealed a landscape about 3,861 square miles (10,000 square km) west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands that stretched above sea level by almost as much as 0.6 miles (1 km). White and colleagues suspect it is part of a larger region that merged with what is now Scotland and may have extended toward Norway in a hot, prehuman world...
The team, led by Ross Hartley, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, found a wrinkly layer 1.2 miles (2 km) beneath the seafloor -- evidence of the buried landscape, reminiscent of the mythical lost Atlantis.
The researchers traced eight major rivers, and core samples, taken from the rock beneath the ocean floor, revealed pollen and coal, evidence of land-dwelling life. But above and below these deposits, they found evidence of a marine environment, including tiny fossils, indicating the land rose above the sea and then subsided...
The burning scientific question, according to White, is what made this landscape rise up, then subside within 2.5 million years? "From a geological perspective, that is a very short period of time," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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Tiahuacu?
it’s the latest atheistic scientific fad...it means before present...of course, your numbers are wrong after a year, but what the hey...
BP means “before present”, it’s usually used in radiocarbon dating, with the “present” actually being 1950 (which is when the RC dating was figured out).
The fragment of skull belonged to a young adult male
Thanks afraidfortherepublic!
The galaxy’s on Orion’s belt.
Allah nothing. :’)
This same technology was responsible for finding a sunken ship a couple of months ago. I don’t remember if is was 4th century Roman, or Viking. ION, of course, is selling the system to find oil.
This image of the ancient buried landscape discovered deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean was made using sound waves bounced off different rock layers. An ancient meandering riverbed is visible.
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Next to the river they found the house where Helen Thomas was born.
;^)
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