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Why are there whale fossils in California mountains?
The Christian Science Monitor. ^ | September 21, 2015 | Story Hinckley,

Posted on 09/22/2015 11:17:09 AM PDT by george76

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To: MeganC

ok that makes sense.


141 posted on 09/24/2015 9:17:06 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: MeganC

but that does not explain the california whales in the moutains.

because I don’t think the glaciers got that far south.


142 posted on 09/24/2015 9:18:11 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: ckilmer

Glaciers were as far south as Death Valley which had once been a big lake filled by glacial runoff.


143 posted on 09/24/2015 9:20:44 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: tacticalogic

“So the Earth really is 4.5 billion years old. “

It seems so. Still, one does well to reflect that God is not bound by time.

After one gets past the fact that God created everything, just exactly how He did it seems, well, secondary at best.


144 posted on 09/24/2015 10:58:10 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
After one gets past the fact that God created everything, just exactly how He did it seems, well, secondary at best.

This isn't about how, it's about what.

145 posted on 09/24/2015 11:01:01 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Same reason there’s shark’s teeth on Jack’s Peak - up above Carmel -


146 posted on 09/24/2015 11:18:45 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christians are as Christians do. By their fruits...)
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To: tacticalogic

“This isn’t about how, it’s about what.”

How so? Whether He brought things into being instantly or took billions of years to do it, what He created is what we have.


147 posted on 09/24/2015 11:25:56 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: navyguy

Maybe this can give a clue:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface


148 posted on 09/24/2015 11:27:04 AM PDT by Normandy
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To: dsc
what He created is what we have.

And we're still a long way from understanding exactly with that is. But we're working on it.

149 posted on 09/24/2015 11:46:35 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: SunkenCiv; All

Here are other science oriented events to take place this Sunday and Monday. Perhaps this should be posted as a separate thread. The link below has several other related links at that site.

http://news.yahoo.com/super-blood-moon-stargazers-rare-show-024044296.html


150 posted on 09/24/2015 10:11:03 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin; Fred Nerks

Maybe the whale fossils just like the climate. ;’)


151 posted on 09/24/2015 11:44:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: george76

Mysticete whales were the ‘walking catfish’ of their era?


152 posted on 09/25/2015 2:06:47 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It’s climate change! lol

Really, what idiot doesn’t know basic facts that everything was once under sea water. Where do idiots like this think the salt flats in Utah came from or the Great Salt Lake?


153 posted on 09/25/2015 2:08:15 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Taphonomy of fossil whales in the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru

Distribution of fossil whales on Cerro Blanco, superimposed on an aerial photo. Red dots correspond to individual whales (N = 180). Black dots correspond to specimens that cannot be determined to be complete whales, usually because of post-exposure erosional damage (N = 166). It appears likely that most whales were essentially complete before the effects of modern erosion processes.

Baleen from Fernanda. Left - surface view of the baleen (~ 8 cm from top to bottom of photo). Upper right - cross section of baleen. The dark colored v-shaped structures are sheets of baleen. Lower right - microscopic enlargement of surface of a sheet of baleen. Notice the fine ridges preserved in the baleen. We found fossilized baleen in several other whales also, but the baleen was best preserved in this whale. This type of preservation requires rapid burial, before the baleen tissue decayed. Fernanda was also buried before the spinal cord decayed, as black mineral replacement of the spinal cord was present in its normal position within the vertebral column (but nowhere else).

source

154 posted on 09/25/2015 2:14:08 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: SunkenCiv; gleeaikin
Stratigraphic distribution of whales on Cerro Blanco study area. The horizontal centerline of each whale symbol is located at the stratigraphic position of an individual whale. Whales are mostly in the diatomaceous siltstone in upper part of section. The lower part of section (120 meters, not shown here) is mostly sandstone, and contains only a few whales. Whales are distributed throughout the diatomaceous sediment, and not in discrete, mass death units.

An unexcavated, complete whale:

methinks earthquake-tsunami. Water receded suddenly, then within a short period, the return waves over 260meters, lifted and covered the stranded whales with a thin layer of silt.

Similar phenomenon is evidenced in the Whale Valley, Egypt.

155 posted on 09/25/2015 3:35:07 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt.

156 posted on 09/25/2015 4:05:12 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: gleeaikin

Thanks glee’.


157 posted on 09/25/2015 4:11:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Fred Nerks

Nice pic!


158 posted on 09/25/2015 4:14:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: navyguy
where did all of that extra water come from and where did it all go?

If God created the rains which caused the flood then it's reasonable to accept that he took the water away after he sent his message.............

159 posted on 09/25/2015 4:19:22 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: Fred Nerks
Hey, those whales DROWNED in the GREAT FLOOD, and you know it. /s

160 posted on 09/26/2015 5:27:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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