'Wondrous': Ranger stumbles onto biggest Calif. fossil find ever

KSBW ^ | May 21, 2021 | Andrew Chamings

[Tucker39]

I have to chuckle at the lengths these “scholars” go to, to avoid mentioning the Worldwide Flood of Noah as a prime candidate for when the death of those creatures, and inundation of those trees took place. I hope people from several of the Creation Research organizations are participating in the inspection of that site.

[sauropod]

Blmk

[11th_VA]

Mastodon remains were last found in California by the agency in 1947 during pipeline construction in Contra Costa County. But the current trove of fossils is the largest and most diverse in the state's history.

I believe the La Brea tar pits find something every month

[11th_VA]

Mastodon remains were last found in California by the agency in 1947 during pipeline construction in Contra Costa County. But the current trove of fossils is the largest and most diverse in the state's history.

I believe the La Brea tar pits find something every month

[Migraine]

buried in the fine-grained sediments of deltas, floodplains or volcanic ash beds, and turned to stone over millions of yearsabout 75 years

Fascinating stuff, and exciting; but I felt compelled to fix some of it. Petrified wood is made where volcanic ash is laid down AND where Yellowstone-like hot, bubbling steampots of slurry break down into kaolinite, which then goes into solution in acidic, brackish pools.

Anyway, petrified wood is my passion, and I know for a fact it is created in a relatively short time (otherwise there'd be no wood left to petrify; plus experiments have been done showing significant quartz formation within 15 years).

[lucky american]

Geological disaster, like a landslide or similar..................

How about Noah’s flood? That may be the reason why so many bones were found in one place. It might have been a dry area where animals were herded and gathered only to drown.

[AFreeBird]

Very cool!

[DUMBGRUNT]

--"environmentalists will now want to shut down the watershed"

The site, the Mokelumne River watershed, is where some 1.4 million Bay Area residents get their drinking water.

Why are the wealthy people of the Bay area drinking the water belonging to the poor people 100 miles distant?

[Paleo Pete]

incredibly, 400-pound salmon with spiked teeth....................Gonna need a bigger net..................

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So you’re telling me my 15lb test Trilene Big Game might not do the trick?

[SunkenCiv]

Rocks around the clock tonight.

[gundog]

Why isn’t there a coresponding layer from that time covering all of he Earth?

[SunkenCiv]

Like the 400 pound salmon?

[21twelve]

And a REALLY big closet back then.

[gundog]

These finds wouldn’t be rare had they occurred across the entire planet 4,500-4,000 years ago, now, would they?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“They even found camel fossils.”

400-pound spiked-tooth salmon fishes gots to eat, too!

See? No one listens to me! I’ve been telling everyone for MILLIONS OF YEARS - NOT to go into the water! There are things in there that want to EAT you! ;)

[taterjay]

Was he wearing a mask on this hike?? He may have damaged the environment by spreading ChiVi.

[metmom]

So when did this ranger make this find?

I didn’t see and the article didn’t load properly for me.

[GOP Poet]

Wow!!!!

[BereanBrain]

You are right. Have you seen the picture of the iron ladder in a cave that is completely covered over in stone?

[vis a vis]

From the article
“The site intrigued Greg Francek, a ranger for East Bay Municipal Utility District, as he was walking the valley last summer.”