Re: Flood Model and ichnofossils
Karen G. Jensen (kjensen@calweb.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:34:56 -0600>[snip]
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>>>...and how do the tiny little reptiles survive this process?
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>>A lot of them probably died. But enough of them survived that during the
>>Coconino depostion they were able to leave millions of trackways.
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>Millions survived? Or are you saying a dozen (figuratively speaking; the
>exact number is immaterial as long as it was low) were so energetic (despite
>malnutrition and unimaginable stress) that they scampered all over the
>exposed sediments, virtually non-stop, until they finally drowned?
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>Why didn't snakes survive with them, or toads, or turtles, or field mice?
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The Coconino Sandstone is Permian, before the Mesozoic deposition brought
in and fossilized an abundance of land-dwelling organisms.
Karen