Posted on 09/22/2015 11:17:09 AM PDT by george76
Construction workers in California's Santa Cruz mountains were subject to a surprise delay last week when a team of archaeologists took over the site to remove an ancient whale fossil.
The project site was expected to have a high potential for archaeological finds, so a monitor was assigned to the Scotts Valley development and found the fossil amid construction vehicles on Sept. 4.
This project site is not the only one in California with fossils
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Since the 19th century, paleontologists have been studying the “Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed” near Bakersfield, California, where fossils and bones of ancient whales, seals, dolphins, sharks, and fish have been uncovered.
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At 25 feet long, the archaeologists assigned to the project believe the remains belong to a mysticete whale, an ancient ancestor of the baleen whale.
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I have also hunted that same place for sharks teeth and other marine fossils. A front end loader helped. Much of the Santa Cruz mountains sits of a very large sandstone formation that also can have fossils in it, somewhat rarer than the area near Scott’s Valley.
there are fossils of rather large fish, possibly sharks or Marlin..something along those lines, that I have seen hiking up in the Santa Monica mountains. I saw one in particular on a limestone rock overlooking the ocean.. up at the very tippy top .. I didn’t have a smartphone at the time, otherwise I would have snapped a photo. earthquakes pushed up that mass of rock.
Two words, Plate Tectonics.
Where did the Barney the Dinosaur plague fit in with the 10?
You know, that whole week of the “I love you, you love me” song...
That almost broke Pharoah right there.
Lol!
Oh that one is easy.
In the last ice age the continent was covered with a couple miles of ice. That pushed a lot of stuff downward.
As the ice melted, the sea rushed in allowing for the animals you saw to die and fall to the floor.
Finally as the glaciers receded completely, the earth under them springs back up. A couple hundred feet is nothing when compared to huge glacier.
Darwin Award winners. Didn’t have enough sense to follow the receding water line.
Not NOAH’s flood, but NOAA’s floods.
According to what I’ve read sea level rises during that period are measured in the tens of meters, not hundreds. And I’m not so sure there was ice in this area. I’ll have to check.
Sent my kid into a frenzy so bad that when he grew up he joined the Corps!
Wish you did have your phone to take pics. I would have loved to see sharks or marlins hiking up in the Santa Monica Mountains! :-)
The sea level rose. Yes, because the Ice melted. Had to go somewhere, ha ha.
But, I am talking about the earth’s crust.
Think of it as a foam mattress. It IS springy, and it sprung up a lot.
Because of magic and evolution. Or to remove the less plausible explanation, because of magic.
So are the oilfields in Wyoming from the sedentary deposits, draining from higher elevations into the inland seas?
SUV’s? Perhaps. The article did say it found the bones among construction vehicles.
And why are “archaeologists” investigating this. Did the Indians haul this thing up to their camp and left the bones around the campfire? (Paleontologists study fossils.)
They drove them up in the Mezzezoic in Excursions and Hummers which is what caused the asteroid impact.
Pretty obvious if you think about it.
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