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To: 1forall
..buried rapidly in a low-oxygen environment that prevented decay.

You mean like an enormous cataclysmic flood?

Water is not a low-oxygen environment.

More likely, this dinosaur was entombed in a landslide or something similar. This is an interesting find, but like the T-Rex soft-tissue (which wasn't really the soft-tissue itself, but the mineralized replacement), it's probably just a really unusual situation.

12 posted on 07/06/2009 9:23:22 AM PDT by Blackacre
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To: Blackacre; 1forall
"Water is not a low-oxygen environment."

Steam and boiling water hold no gasses at all, and both were the dominant forms of water during the 'flood.'

19 posted on 07/06/2009 9:56:42 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Blackacre
Water is not a low-oxygen environment.

Water itself may not be, but during a cataclysmic flood, it can create that type of environment. To wit, 1500 Guatemalans were buried in a mudslide caused by a few days of torrential rains. So I guess we both could be correct (landslide caused by lots of water).

The point is this: it is all conjecture and either conclusion is an act of faith because we weren't there to witness the event.

42 posted on 07/06/2009 10:40:41 AM PDT by 1forall (America - my home, my land, my country.)
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