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Posted on 05/13/2015 11:13:48 AM PDT by JimSEA
Erik Gulbranson, a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, trudges up a steep ridge overlooking his field camp of mountain tents and pyramid-shaped Scott tents in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. A brief hike nearly to the top of a shorter ridge ends at the quarry, where picks and hammers have chopped out a ledge of sorts in the slate-grey hillside.
Sometime about 220 million years ago, a meandering stream flowed here and plants grew along its banks. Something, as yet unknown, caused sediment to flood the area rapidly, which helped preserve the plants. Gulbranson splits open a grey slab of siltstone in the quarry to reveal amazingly well-preserved Triassic plant fossils, as if the leaves and stems had been freshly pressed into the rock only yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nsf.gov ...
“Something, as yet unknown, caused sediment to flood the area rapidly...”
I read stuff like this all the time. Thousands of drowned, fossilized dinosaurs found together. etc.
Noah’s flood. They just don’t want to admit it.
Nice headline. Do they want us to think the ice melting is exposing fossils?
That’s exactly what it was.
“Something, as yet unknown, caused sediment to flood the area rapidly”
That something was known. Some people are willfully ignorant.
No.
Glass half-full! It was once much warmer in the Antarctic to where plants were growing where they weren't expected to be. :-)
This flood in ancient Antarctica happened some 199 million years ago in the Triassic period. The largest and most striking evidence of an ancient flood is found in the Washington Scablands where a series of floods from the ice ages in the mid to late Pleistocene (129,000 + years ago and even more recent times) when warming interrupted the Ice Ages. Everywhere in the world there can be found evidence of regional flooding at different time periods but there is no evidence of a global flood. Most of the most spectacular surviving flood evidence dates back to the Ice Ages as a result of melting of massive glaciers.
I know why. Not a surprise to me.
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