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To: LastDayz

Yes, now ask yourself, how did this footprint become stone?

It had to have lain undisturbed for a loooong time in order to preserve that footprint in stone that was originally mud........................


13 posted on 05/16/2023 7:06:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

We live in a subdivision in Texas that has dinosaur footprints in the rocks by a creek. We’re 1000 ft above sea level, a couple hundred miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The story here is that the dinosaur walked in mud at the edge of the Gulf. Algae then formed a layer in the footprint. Saltwater covered the prints and small shells from the sea water filled in the prints. Sea levels rose, and the shells covered the prints to a level many feet thick. The pressure from above turned the shells into limestone.

However, silt, and mud, from surrounding rivers was filling the Gulf, as the delta around New Orleans is doing today. This caused the ocean floor to sink, but the land near us rose from the pressure of the ocean floor going down. This is what pushed our elevation up 1000 feet. We live right on the Balcones Fault, the line where this uplift occurred. Erosion then washed away the covering limestone over the footprints, exposing them. It took 100 million years for this all to happen.

This certainly is a unique set of circumstances but think of all the hundreds of trillions of footprints that didn’t get covered, turned to rock, and then uncovered later.


16 posted on 05/16/2023 6:43:11 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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