Where Are Huge Fossils Forming?

What's the difference between if huge fossils or small fossils are forming? It's well known that fossilization of anything is rare.

 

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That avalanche material, with the bodies, will erode away in a century or so.

 

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You know that to be fact? What if the valley is aggrading? What about every other landslide in the world? Will they all erode within a century and how do you know this?

 

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Where are valleys supposedly aggrading into vast flat-lying sedimentary layers?

 

With an old earth, fossilization of land animals would be extremely rare since landslides and mudholes entombing land animals in a sedimentary environment are extremely rare. Marine creatures, on the other hand, would have much better odds of being fossilized since they are always in a sedimentary environment.

Predictably, only 1% of the fossil record is land creatures, and 99% are marine creatures.

 

Did you have this aversion to researching and reading (and dare i say it; thinking) when you were getting your degree? It would sure explain how you don't seem to grasp ideas I learned in my first few geology lessons.
These would not appear in the geological column as vast flat lying layers, but instead if preserved they would be found at an irregular unconformity representing a buried landscape. you seem to have nicely ignored my statements that deposition occur quickly in deserts, deltas, and floodplains etc. Do you deny that creatures could be buried here?

 

Just keep the insults to yourself.

 

Again:
you seem to have nicely ignored my statements that deposition occur quickly in deserts, deltas, and floodplains etc. Do you deny that creatures could be buried here?

 

Nice.

Will it? Or will it accumulate soil through the interception of wind and water erosion and become buried?

 

Large animals are not becoming fossils in deltas, deserts, or floodplains, they die, then rot and degrade by various agents, and within a matter of weeks, there's no sign of the creature.

 

Right. Because there's no evidence of, say, native remains from as little as a few thousand years ago, or even a hundred years ago. The remains of lost campers are never, ever found. Never. 0%.

Sure.

Not.

 

Oh sure, and processes today are causing the fossil record which we see, yeh right.

 

Hey Geoff, when was the last time the oceans were up on the continents?

 

I trust that you have spent many a year following the progress of any and all animal corpses to have fallen in each of those environments? Because unless you have your statement is absolutely useless.

A quick question- How is it that an animal can become buried in your global flood, and yet you seem to think that this is impossible in a large regional or small local flood?

 

OMG - you just don't get it, do you? Missing remains never occur. Everything liquifies. Right? There are no remains of dinosaurs, no bones even to begin with. No remains of Native Americans that weren't buried. All a trick of the Devil, right? Sure.

OK, I call troll.

 

Do you know that large areas of continental crust are under the ocean and accumulating sediment as we speak? Look at the North Sea for instance.

 

Ha! Nice one.

 

Well, lemme see. About 75 million years ago, they were in Kansas.

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This is pretty obvious from all the skeletons with flippers there - mosasaurs, fish, turtles and the like. There were other points, of course, but that'll do for a start.

 

To have large creatures and billions of smaller ones entombed in often vast sedimentary layers, they need to have been entombed in wet sediments, then the water must have drained fairly quickly, with the sediments cementing soon thereafter.

The Deluge explains the deposition, and the CaCO3 in the Deluge water was the cementing agent.

 

GeoffP, at "75 million years ago," assuming a constant erosion rate through that alleged time, the continents should have eroded to sea level five times over. Your sense of time and reality are horribly skewed.