Posted on 06/17/2008 9:24:05 AM PDT by george76
A newly discovered batch of well-preserved dinosaur bones, petrified trees and even freshwater clams in southeastern Utah may provide fresh clues about life in the region some 150 million years ago.
The Bureau of Land Management announced the find Monday, calling the quarry near Hanksville "a major dinosaur fossil discovery."
Several weeks of excavation have revealed at least four long-necked sauropods, two carnivorous dinosaurs and possibly a stegosaurus, according to the BLM. Nearby, there are also animal burrows and petrified tree trunks six feet in diameter. It doesn't contain any new species - at least not yet - but offers the chance to learn more about the ecology of that time, said Scott Foss, a BLM paleontologist.
The fossilized dinosaurs are from the same late Jurassic period of those at Dinosaur National Monument and the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry near Price.
It could be a decade or so before the full importance of the Hanksville quarry is known, Foss said.
"It does have the potential to match the other major quarries in Utah,"
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...
Many years ago, I was assigned to Hanksville to take some weather observations for a missile program, and I stayed in the only motel there. It was a gas station/motel/rock shop.
The owner asked if I wanted to go fossil hunting and I agreed.
We took his gas station wrecker out to the desert (I am guessing 50 miles or so) and came on a huge pile of petrified logs. Hell it was a petrified forest.
He threw a chain around one of the logs, lifted it up, and headed back to Hanksville.
Wonder if this is the same place?
.....Bob
Good, now let’s get that stuff outta the way so we can drill for oil there!....................
it so dry it turned into to coal instead
There are many piles of dino dung nearby.
Turned to stone now.
People sell the stuff at rock shops ...
*In Before Helen Thomas Picture
Butch Cassidy knew some of the excellent spots, too.
There’s a junkyard just outside of Dinosaur National Monument called Tyranosaurus Wrecks. (No, I’m not making this up.)
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Thanks geo. Those clams are out of the question, I won't eat them after 3 million. |
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Petroleum originated when organic matter in ancient muds and clays accumulated in subsiding geological basins. This sediment was heated over a period of millions of years as geological processes brought the material deeper underground. The end product depends on just how deep the organic-rich sediments were carried. At 150 - 200 C, natural gas is the end produce. At 60 - 150 C, oils are produced, and leach out of the rocks to form pockets that get trapped between impermeable layers of shale. Radioactive dating of the rocks in which oil deposits occur span the range from the Cambrian Era to the Cretaceous Era between 65 million and 500 million years ago.
OR
Creationists propose that these deposits were laid down by the Great Biblical Flood some few thousand years ago in 2350 B.C, when the organic deposits ( Flood victims) were entombed in the Earth. Their conversion into oil and gas deposits then took a few thousand years to the present time. So, every time you fill up at the gas pump you are pouring liquefied dead humans and ancient creatures into your car.
My Thanks to Ask the Astronomer for a short and contentious answer. I will duck now.
Because they are not under pressure.
. Maybe because there is no law that says that every dead creature in every part of the earth has to decompose exactly the same way as every other.
“When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not.”
Best hang on to it. I’ve seen good quality P. wood going for $20-$40 a pound now.
It is getting old, ain’t it?
Paleontology ping...
Paleontology ping...
I want some punishment! ;-p
Helen or the joke?
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