>>-dinosaur / man tracks in Texas
>
>Many young-earth advocates now admit that these are not legitimate (not
>Baugh though), though some try to cite other examples. At Paluxey, the
>locals were carving tracks and otherwise enhancing things for the tourists
>before young-earth advocates came. The purported human tracks include
>dinosaur footprints and carvings. The first Paleo Society volume has a
>good article on tracks, with a photo of what look like human footprints in
>the Precambrian of Canada. In addition to geologic features that show
>that they are sedimentary features, the following difficulties might be
>apparent to a non-geologist:
>The prints are just a few inches apart, but point opposite directions
>There is no trackway (or impression of someone falling down from trying to
>stand with his feet adjacent and pointing in opposite directions)
>The prints look like tennis shoe impressions, unlikely to exist in
>antidiluvian times.
Many of the Paluxey prints are part of real trackways. Glen Kuban's
exhaustive study of these trackways deomstrated that they were actually
three-toed dinosaur prints with elongated metatarsal impressions (they were
walking on their heels). Similar trackways have since been recognized in
several other localities around the world.
Keith
Keith B. Miller
Department of Geology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
kbmill@ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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