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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“Why are there whale fossils in California mountains?”
If Hemingway were alive, he might give us an answer.
my question is,back then the world was flat and the bibical people did this part of the world was here,so how do they know the whole world flooded?
Thanks for the maps!
Tsunami
Before Noah’s flood, there was a large amount of water above the atmosphere which may have taken the form a ring. There was also more water below the surface of the earth than there is now. That is where the water came from.
Before Noah’s flood, there were no seasons. During the flood, the axis of the earth changed. This resulted in water congregating in the polar ice caps. If the ice caps were to melt, the earth would flood again.
But God promised not to allow that to happen. He has reserved the final judgment of the earth to be by fire rather than flood.
All of this is in the Bible. (The polar ice caps are not specifically mentioned, but the gist of what I am saying is from the Bible.)
There’s plenty of water on earth to produce a worldwide deluge. One of the theories I’ve seen is runaway tectonic plate subduction. If the earth temporarily became pretty much a smooth sphere, no valleys and no mountains, the water would stand about one half mile deep all over the earth.
It requires some very specific conditions to form fossils. It usually requires that the organism be buried in some sort of flood/water sediment. Otherwise, if an organism dies in the open, they’ll just be scavenged or rot and decay to dust.
Ol’ Andy, Andy Dufrane
being in prison is like geology, its a study of time and pressure
All oilfields are formed from sedimentary basins.
All sedimentary basins are form by sediments that flowed from higher elevations.
that is how the myth of noah’s flood began
there was simply not other rational explanation
Actually, they spawn after “jumping up waterfalls.” I have not seen them doing this but it is a fun thing to think about.
Wait a minute....whales don’t spawn, they are mammals. Fixed it.
The great flood
There are two basic types of surface rebounding. One, as you pointed out, is a spring back of the land after the enormous weight of the glaciers is gone through melting.
The other involves bedrock that was driven deep into the crust as the result of the mountain-building process (tectonic plate convergence). The rebounding in this case occurs when the great weight of the overlying mountains is no more due to them having eroded away.
For example, the surface bedrock seen in Manhattan’s Central Park, and other areas along the east coast, was once several miles below the surface. It appears at the surface today only because the overlying mountains eroded away, allowing the land to gradually spring back up. They are what’s known as (former) mountain ‘roots’. The mountains there are believed to have been once as high as the Alps. And the land (the entire North American continent, actually) was SOUTH of the equator.
Current “bamboozlers” are the folks that blame warm weather on carbon dioxide and want the Feds to investigate those who dare to question them.
Exactly.
Much of the coast of British Columbia and Alaska have risen as much as 400 feet above sea level since the peak of the ice age. That’s just 18,000 to 20,000 years.
That would be my answer too.
In the evolutionary chain, when they had wings before no longer needing them, they would fly around in the mountains and occasionally crash.
Bunk, Whales once had wings and nested up there.
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