Oilsands shovel operator discovers dinosaur

Calagary Herald ^ | March 25, 2011 | Ryan Cormier

[Perdogg]

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[billorites]

[digger48]

That’ll take that mine out of production for a while.

finding relics will shut down a jobsite faster than OSHA or MSHA ever could here in the states..

[MrB]

dinosaurs found in Alberta are 65 million to 75 million years old, while this find is likely 113 million years old

No, the dirt/rock in which it is found is being dated at this old. The dinosaur itself is not. And those dating methods, depending on which one dating method of several you want to assume is right, will all give wildly different values, and all make assumptions that the daters have no way of knowing are true.

[thackney]

That’ll take that mine out of production for a while.

I think most oilsands operations are very large areas. I expect they will shut down a large area and the mine will only be delayed while they shift to another section.

[bert]

———Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller———

This is one of the world’s great museums and houses the largest collection of dinosaur fossils.

If you get up that way, take the few miles off the beaten path to visit. It will be an eye opener and education.......possibly resulting in enlightenment

It also has an excellent presentation of fossils from the not too distant Burgess Shale site.

[humblegunner]

This thing is in a giant lump, about 85 per cent of it is still in the hill.

That made me think of the First Lady.

[Hatteras]

"Lundquist said the area of the Suncor site will remain closed until all of the fossil is excavated."

And a shovel operator is now out of work. Least they could do is name the dinosaur after him.

[raybbr]

"Oilsands shovel operator discovers dinosaur "

Oh. It's just a fossil not an actual dinosaur.

[NonValueAdded]

Don’t know why they are high-fiving; haven’t they heard of gopher turtles, snail darters, and eagle nests?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***..finding relics will shut down a jobsite faster than OSHA or MSHA ever could here in the states..***

Claiming that a jobsite is really a “sacred Indian Burial ground” will get it shut down faster!

[corkoman]

No, the dirt/rock in which it is found is being dated at this old. The dinosaur itself is not. And those dating methods, depending on which one dating method of several you want to assume is right, will all give wildly different values, and all make assumptions that the daters have no way of knowing are true.

Barbara Streisand, but nice try.

Or perhaps the much younger dinosaur was teleported into the site. Otherwise the fossil is the same "age" as the elements in its immediate vicinity.

But I suppose teleporting into stone is entirely possible if that is part of your belief system.

[MrB]

Not possible that the dirt is older than the Dino?
Seriously?

[Petruchio]

WOW! FReepers are slipping. 14 posts and no pictures of Helen Thomas . . .

[thackney]

Sedimentation accumilation from the surface would result in older dirt?

[houeto]

WOW! FReepers are slipping. 14 posts and no pictures of Helen Thomas . . .

I'm gettin' out of this thread while the gettin' is still good. Bye.

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