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Watery secret of the dinosaur death pose (Simplest explanation of Dino extinction: They drowned)
New Scientist ^ | 11/23/2011 | by Brian Switek

Posted on 11/26/2011 6:26:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks again. :’)

Immanuel Velikovsky
Earth In Upheaval: The Aquatic Graveyards
(p 19)

An identical picture can be found in many other places all around the world, in similar and dissimilar formations. Of Monte Bolca, near Verona in northern Italy, Buckland wrote: “The circumstances under which the fossil fishes are found at Monte Bolca seem to indicate that they perished suddenly. . . . The skeletons of these fish lie parallel to the laminae of the strata of the calcareous slate; they are always entire, and closely packed on one another. . . . All these fishes must have died suddenly . . . and have been speedily buried in the calcareous sediment then in the course of deposition. From the fact that certain individuals have even preserved traces of colour upon their skin, we are certain that they were entombed before decomposition of their soft parts had taken place.”

The same author wrote about the fish deposits in the area of the Harz Mountains in Germany: “Another celebrated deposit of fossil fishes is that of the cupriferous slate surrounding the Harz. Many of the fishes of this slate at Mansfeld, Eisleben, etc., have a distorted attitude, which has often been assigned to writhing in the agonies of death. ... As these fossil fishes maintain the attitude of the rigid stage immediately succeeding death, it follows that they were buried before putrefaction had commenced, and apparently in the same bituminous mud, the influx of which had caused their destruction.”

The slory of agony and sudden death and immediate encasing is told by the red sandstone of Scotland; the limestone of Monte Bolca in Lombardy; the bituminous slate of Mansfeld in Thuringia; and also by the coal formation of Saarbrucken on the Saar, “the most celebrated deposits of fossil fishes in Europe”; the calcareous slate of Solenhofen; the blue slate of Glarus; the marlstone of Oensingen in Switzerland and of Aix-in -Provence, to mention only a few of the better-known sites in Europe.

In North America similar strata, “packed full of splendidly preserved fishes,” are found in the black limestone of Ohio and Michigan, in the Green River bed of Arizona, the diatom beds of Lompoc, California, and in many other formations.

In cataclysms of early ages fishes died in agony; and the sand and the gravel of the upthrust sea bottom covered the aquatic graveyards.


21 posted on 11/26/2011 6:53:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: mnehring

/bingo


22 posted on 11/26/2011 6:56:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SatinDoll

But suppose they were around for only a couple of thousand years?!?!?


23 posted on 11/26/2011 6:56:41 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A whole 7 minutes!

Thats like from the days of the dinosaurs. lol


24 posted on 11/26/2011 6:57:04 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: ClearCase_guy

>>Now why on earth would so many extinct animals die in some sort of freak drowning event???<<

Clearly they didn’t wait at least an hour after eating...


25 posted on 11/26/2011 7:02:31 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
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To: ClearCase_guy

How many of each animal was on the ark? Where is the T-Rex of today?


26 posted on 11/26/2011 7:05:22 PM PST by Grunthor (pro-illegal alien "conservatives" piss me off.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Nope.

As a Catholic priest, you might like to get into contact with Father Guiseppe Leonardi. His family have been scientists since the 15th century and the family home has the skeleton of a dwarf elephant on the third floor. That fossil is a million years old. He is a specialist in dinosaur tracks, and while studying for the clergy at Rome University, pursued a Ph.D. in paleontology.

Priest to priest, he may be able to better explain the geological study of stratigraphy in terms you could understand, and how it would be nigh impossible for fossils found on mountaintops to exist there after only two thousand years.


27 posted on 11/26/2011 7:08:34 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: Grunthor

Noah didn’t have enough room for all the meat animals to feed a T-Rex. ;-)


28 posted on 11/26/2011 7:11:45 PM PST by Ripliancum (Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Why? Why indeed! I suppose no university professor would have any idea why.

OTH I read an article about the almost universal prevalence of flood "mythology". Any clue?

I find the following Bible passage touching because God Himself speaks so humbly:

"And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth." (Genesis 9:12-16)

Is it not humbling to read the Lord Himself say, " . . . that I may remember . . . ". It that not redolent of what Jesus, the Christ, said, "This do in remembrance of me . . . ".

29 posted on 11/26/2011 7:37:04 PM PST by hfr (Liberalism is a moral disorder that leads to mental disorder (actually it's sin))
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To: ClearCase_guy
Now why on earth would so many extinct animals die in some sort of freak drowning event???

Kennedysorus was driving ?

30 posted on 11/26/2011 7:56:54 PM PST by al baby (Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe a flood?


31 posted on 11/26/2011 8:01:57 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Expiate your inner liberal racist guilt, but use your brain: Vote CAIN in 2012!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Thats because there was a great flood... :)


32 posted on 11/26/2011 8:13:14 PM PST by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: SatinDoll

Yep. Probably a bit of the lemming-syndrome, too.


33 posted on 11/26/2011 8:13:14 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: PapaNew

If this had anything to do with the flood, I wonder why Noah didn’t have any dinosaurs on board?


34 posted on 11/26/2011 8:23:23 PM PST by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Elsiejay

Trilobites were around for some 300 million years, declining slowly through the Devonian and with the final order disappearing in the Permian extinction. Some tie their decline with jawed and semi jawed fish able to crush their protection. The last order liked shallow water. We still have their relation, the horseshoe crab.

No one thing or time period can be said to have caused their extinction, rather it was likely many things over may millions of years. Scorpions, jellyfish, sea pens, corals, sponges, etc. all have survived from the time their ancestors lived alongside the trilobites.


35 posted on 11/26/2011 8:41:08 PM PST by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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To: Ripliancum

So are you saying that normally BYU doesn’t support the Bible, I can agree with that.


36 posted on 11/26/2011 8:44:18 PM PST by svcw (God's Grace - thank you!)
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To: svcw

Actually, Rip is trying to slide an oblique insult about Jim Robinson into the mix. Saundra Duffy and restornu do it, too.


37 posted on 11/26/2011 8:50:47 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: SatinDoll; stuartcr

Thanks!


38 posted on 11/26/2011 8:50:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GeronL

That’s 420 seconds, practically forever.


39 posted on 11/26/2011 8:51:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MHGinTN

Gee, why don’t you ping him? You guys usually do when we complain that this is becoming more and more an anti Mormon site.


40 posted on 11/26/2011 8:53:21 PM PST by Ripliancum (Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you. -Eph. 4:31)
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