A fossil whale was found vertically through several strata
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Near Lompoc, California, an 80-foot whale fossil was found in a diatomaceous earth quarry. It was oriented vertically (standing on its tail), passing through millions of years of strata. Only a cataclysmic deposition (The Flood) could account for this.
Source
Ackerman, P. D., 1986. It's a Young World After All, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, pp. 81-83.
Responses
- The whale was not actually vertical but at a 40-50 degree angle. In fact, it lay parallel with the strata which at the time had been the sea floor the whale had settled to upon its death. The layer was tilted by folding and tectonic activity of the transverse ranges to it 40-50 degree angle. The diatomacious earth above it has laminations that indicate slow accumulation on a anoxic (without oxygen) bay bottom. Hardgrounds occur between layers; hardgrounds are formed when no accumulation occurs for a long period of time allowing the surface to cement. Identical forms of sediments are slowly being deposited in the bay of california today. (Curray et al. 1992; Schrader et al. 1982).
- Similar whale bones being slowly covered by deposition have been witnessed off the coast of California as well. (Allison et al. 1990; Smith et al. 1989).
- These whales are not evidence of a flood, or any kind of cataclysmic event when all the facts are presented, but rather show a long dynamic period of deposition, punctuated by periods of no deposition, and later folding and tectonic activity.
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External Links
- South, Darby, 1995. A Whale of a Tale, [1].
