Рет қаралды 846
Where there were dinosaurs, there will be coprolites. Ever wonder why a coprolite is still preserved in a 3-d condition? while other forms of soft-tissue are supposed to be so rare and exceptional in their preserved state. As it turns-out petrified wood is rare, because every beach pebble, river rock, agate, geodes, flint nodules, and most concretions, were formally creation 65+mya. The rocks represent the last bite on the claw, that was discarded in the river where the prey was butchered, dismembered, sectioned into roasts and steaks by a slaughter-house pro. The pieces of meat and organs floated down-stream, lodged in the reeds and mangroves of the salty, hot lagoons and marshes where the salt absorbed into the tissue and lost neutral-buoyancy and sank slowly into the ooze. After being salt-brined and preserved, and finding some depth, pressure and heat the electrons, yes! at the atomic level w/+or- valance, will exchange and replace the salt with calcite,gypsum and other surface minerals, micro-crystallizing around the tissue fibers, Goggle my name to find more informative presentations.Their still teaching the wrong stuff in school, what a shame. The only problem here is that in this case," The Truth is MUCH more stranger than the fiction created early in the beginnings of Geology. Other more improbable myths were hatched many hundreds of years ago, that are still incorporated into the mix.