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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
So, how did the bones survive? Well, the same way gigantic bear bones from the Ice Age survived all across the Midwest. Remember, the Ice Age in that region was typified as "subarctic desert". It was very dusty. There were vast silt storms. It piles up in hillocks of Wind Blow Loess and any bones lying about would be covered up.

The bones are safe until they uncovered, and that could happen thousands of years later during a pluvial. The boundary between the arid and wet zones in the Midwest runs pretty much along the 100 degree meridian these days. We know from other studies that it was sometimes 10 degrees further West and at other 10 degrees further East, and there were extensive salients here and there all across the continent.

This could happen repeatedly and you'd end up with bones from 250,000 years ago ending up with bones from 100,000 years back, and 10,000 years back, and 2 years back. These hills tend to form, on average, in the same spots in every interstadial ~ rivers, though, change differently even though the drainage basins that give rise to them might not change appreciably.

85 posted on 06/13/2012 1:52:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

***It piles up in hillocks of Wind Blow Loess and any bones lying about would be covered up.****

The bones I mentioned were found above ground and not fossilized.


98 posted on 06/13/2012 2:26:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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