| Bone Yards: Massive, colossal, graveyards all around | | | | rather their numbers were flourishing, at the time of |
| the World! | | | | death (this according to M. P., to Sanz in the article |
| Many of the following examples include marine and | | | | "Builders uncover fossil bonanza that may add pieces |
| land animals buried together; a practical impossibility, | | | | to a puzzle", by John Roach). Evolutionists are in |
| except for a massive, catastrophic global flood. | | | | conflict as to the dating of the fossils relative to |
| Desert Finds | | | | extinction: the M. P. report says they lived 15 million |
| · Sahara Desert, Africa: two sauropods (huge | | | | years before, the John Roach report says these |
| long-necked dinosaurs) piled on top of one another, | | | | creatures lived 4 million years before extinction. |
| covered in river sediments; victims of a great flood, per | | | | · Russia, European; Baltic Amber Beads: fish |
| Paul Sareno, on the National Geographic special | | | | beds |
| "Dinosaur Fever", December 13, 1998 | | | | USA Finds |
| · Egyptian Whales: Fossils in a kitchen counter; | | | | · Alaska, : thousands of mammoth bones, |
| countertop mfgr. in Italy, discovered a fossil in a slab of | | | | many not fossilized; frozen carcasses have been |
| limestone marble that was being cut and ground for a | | | | found, intact, with undigested food in both their mouths |
| high-end kitchen counter; the marble was from Egypt, | | | | and in their stomachs (in addition to the ones in Siberian |
| a region that is 95% desert; paleontologists have been | | | | Russia), strongest possible implication (proof, actually!) |
| digging up whale bones there for decades; per National | | | | of a sudden, swift death and burial; non-fossilized |
| Geographic, Egypt's desert is littered with marine life; it | | | | dinosaur bones as well; "Dinosaur Jack" Horner, of the |
| is an area "...once covered by the ocean" (millions of | | | | University of Montana, found a bone (where not clear) |
| years ago!) | | | | that not only was not fossilized, but when examined on |
| · Atacama; Northern Chile: a six hundred mile | | | | a whim under a microscope by a medical pathologist, |
| desert strip, 7000' (1.33 miles) above sea level, | | | | was discovered to have blood, complete with |
| representing the driest place in the world (50 times | | | | hemoglobin and blood vessels |
| drier than Death valley, in California); no life form, | | | | · Alabama, Birmingham: several feet tall |
| nothing rots (indigenous people buried there well | | | | polystrate trees in the Warrior Creek coal field (John |
| preserved-few microorganisms survive that can break | | | | MacKay, "Research Discoveries", Creation Ex Nihilo, |
| down body tissues); Giant 4.5' tall penguins, Baleen | | | | Vol. 8, June 23, 1986) |
| whale fossils, myriads of megalodon teeth (gigantic | | | | · Arizona, Grand Canyon: Redwall Limestone, |
| forerunner to today's Great White shark, up to 60' long, | | | | billions of straight shelled chambered nautiloids, |
| 5' mouth openings, w-teeth up to 8" long!), ammonites | | | | fossilized with other marine creatures in a 7' thick layer |
| and other marine fossils thrown around in an ancient | | | | of sediment, as part of a grave yard spanning 180 |
| flood deposit (see side bar above), prove the ocean | | | | miles, into southern Nevada (total area covered: 10,500 |
| water level in the area was once much greater than | | | | sq. miles) |
| one mile above current sea level; in order for this to be | | | | · California, Hollywood: A Death pit contains |
| true, the ocean water covering the Atacama could not | | | | eagles, doves and roughly 250 saber toothed tigers, |
| have but covered an area far greater than local | | | | along with 50 elephants. There were no elephants, and, |
| coverage, in all directions (in other words, this and other | | | | not one horse in America when the Spaniards came, |
| mountain fossil graveyards are by no means the | | | | nonetheless, hundreds and thousands have been found |
| product of "local" flooding); in fact, given the | | | | buried, fossilized in the sedimentary record. |
| impracticality and the improbability of a sloping or | | | | Bakersfield, Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed (a short distance |
| ramping up of the ocean so as to cover the Atacama, | | | | outside and northeast of the city): most extensive |
| it therefore cannot be but that at the time when ocean | | | | deposit of marine life anywhere on earth, discovered in |
| waters rose to a level higher than one mile over | | | | the 1850s; 200 bones on average, per yard, in an area |
| normal, all water levels worldwide must also have risen, | | | | 6" to 20" thick, 50 miles long (10 miles now exposed!); |
| which means that flooding was promoted at all similar | | | | loaded with sharks teeth as big as a hand, weighing as |
| levels all around the world! Thus, a 7000' rise in sea | | | | much as one pound, from prehistoric, giant monsters |
| level so that the Atacama is covered, mandates a | | | | called megalodons (ancestors to the Great Whites). |
| 7000' rise, wherever there is ocean water (see expert | | | | The absence of volcanic ash, teeth marks on all but 5 |
| from answers.com, at the beginning of this piece.). | | | | of 3000 bones examined, and more than a very few |
| Hence, when the Chilean Desert was covered, so | | | | young seals rule out the possibility for mass death by |
| was most if not all similar points American, the Mt. Etna | | | | volcanic eruption, a feeding ground for giant sharks, or |
| caves, in Sicily and the Gobi, in Mongolia! | | | | a breeding ground for seals. The presence of land |
| · Gobi Desert: dinosaur beds; "bone yard of the | | | | mammals such as horses and tapirs makes red tide, a |
| lost world"; 3000' to 5000' above sea level; 300 miles | | | | toxic sea phenomenon, highly unlikely. |
| of rocky desert, the world's fifth largest, entirely sand | | | | Also in California, fossilized fish have been found |
| on the western end; known for its important | | | | petrified, having opened mouths, arched backs and |
| paleontological finds, which include mammals, the first | | | | spread fins (meaning they were alive, struggling to |
| dinosaur eggs and coal (an organic mineral and energy | | | | survive when they became suddenly engulfed in |
| source, containing the remains of plants and animals, | | | | muddy, sediment filled, raging waters). Many practically |
| meaning it is a "fossil" fuel) | | | | stand on end, so that their bodies past through two |
| African finds | | | | strata, making and signifying that the lower portion of |
| · Karoo Formation, of southern Africa: | | | | any given such fish is millions of years older than the |
| immense and densely packed with bones (some claim | | | | upper portion (by paleontological reckoning)! |
| 800 billion vertebrate animals, a number that may be a | | | | Preposterous, of course! Estimates run as high as |
| bit farfetched); bones are still sticking out of the ground, | | | | billions per an area of four square miles. |
| after years of collecting; sediment composition is | | | | Side Bar |
| mostly sandstone and shale, up to 20,000' deep, | | | | A Step in the Right Direction |
| across hundreds of miles (800 billion may not be so | | | | Clinging to a stubborn refusal to acquiesce to the |
| farfetched after all)! It is unmatched by any other fossil | | | | practicality and viability of the Bible's global flood, at |
| find anywhere else on earth. There is no way to | | | | least we can now have paleontological admission that |
| account for this or any other such pile-up of bones, | | | | no meteorite caused this or any other of the colossal |
| apart from the uplift imparted by a massive, surging | | | | graves found all over the world. "The fossils in the |
| flood of waters. It is not the consequence of millions of | | | | bone bed itself seem mostly scattered, as if...dispersed |
| years of creatures falling on top of each other in | | | | by currents." This marks a step in the right direction. |
| death. | | | | The bones show signs of rot, as if they lay on the |
| Asian Finds | | | | seafloor for some time, "abraded by water with sand |
| · China, Jiayuguan: Chicken Bone Hill & | | | | in it," according to researcher Jere Lipps of the UC |
| Pao Te Hsien; the Liaoning fossil beds, site of dinosaur | | | | Berkeley. The presence of manganese nodules and |
| remains containing soft tissue and feathers; ancient | | | | growths, formations that occur on bones that are |
| relative of T. Rex; other massive fossil finds in China | | | | subjected for extended periods to seawater prior to |
| · Monogolia, 2 days drive from Ulan Bator: 187 | | | | coverage with sediment, is also strongly suggestive. |
| parrot-beaked dinosaurs (6.5' lizard, with a mouth like a | | | | Before concluding once again with the sublimely |
| parrot), all found within an area of only several square | | | | ridiculous, scientists familiar with this dig do allude to a |
| miles, fossilized at the same time, obviously rapidly | | | | covering by sediment that was swept away by sea |
| buried in a water-borne sediment. | | | | currents, which account for the "big and shifting pile" of |
| · Siberian Russia: "The pinnacle of the great | | | | bones. Nicholas Pyenson of the University of British |
| fossil graveyards must be that of the Arctic and | | | | Columbia denies any potential for sediment deposition. |
| Siberia." Mammoths-an estimated five million-thousands | | | | There is a layer above the bone bed in which most of |
| of them, found "flash" frozen, as it were, in the | | | | the skeletons are yet joined together, as they would |
| permafrost, in northern Russia (while standing on their | | | | be in life, "...encased in sediment". (end of side bar) |
| feet, alive, apparently before they could be overcome, | | | | · Colorado, Florissant: a huge variety of insects, |
| lifted, and drowned by the flood waters!), along with | | | | freshwater mollusks, fish, birds and several hundred |
| elephants, horses, lions, foxes, camels and other | | | | plant species (with nuts and blossoms), all buried |
| species. | | | | together. Substantive, quality preservation of bees and |
| · West Indies, Guadeloupe: extremely hard | | | | birds requires rapid burial. |
| limestone slab, almost a mile long-per records from the | | | | · Florida, Tampa: from diverse ecological |
| 18th century-containing the skeletons of many humans, | | | | nitches (plains, forests, lakes, and oceans) 70 species |
| who resemble modern day mankind; in a contradiction | | | | of animals, birds and creatures aquatic; 80% of the |
| of "time", per geologists, the 25 million year old rock | | | | smashed and jumbled bones are from plains mammals |
| actually lies 7' to 10' below a coral reef that | | | | (camels, horses, mammoths, Bears, wolves, large |
| (conversely, also by geological/paleontological | | | | cats-as well as a bird having a 30' wingspan.). There |
| reckoning) is only 1 million years old. | | | | are also mixes of freshwater and saltwater fish |
| Australian Finds | | | | bones, sharks teeth, turtle shells. |
| · Tasmania, Fossil Bluff: many thousands of | | | | · Illinois, Chicago: Mazon Creek coal beds and |
| marine creatures, clams, snails, buried together in | | | | associated shale layer, "...100,000 fossils, representing |
| broken conditions, along with a toothed whale and a | | | | 400 species..." A "spectacular graveyard" that includes |
| marsupial possum (impossible, absent a calamitous | | | | ferns, insects, scorpions, and tetrapods buried with |
| flood) | | | | jellyfish, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish, often with soft |
| Sandstone Bed: coverage-400 square miles (roughly | | | | parts exquisitely preserved". |
| 20 miles x 20 miles) of outback Australia, houses | | | | · Montana, Egg Mountain: 12 miles west of |
| millions of exquisitely preserved soft bodies of marine | | | | Choteau, 10,000 (of a possible 30,000!) Hadrosaurs, |
| creatures | | | | found piled together in a jumble suggestive of a mass |
| Canada | | | | death. Their fossilized bones were located in an area |
| · Joggins, Nova Scotia: up to 12' tall polystrate | | | | of 1.5 to 2 miles. The site contains the largest cache of |
| fossils standing with bases in the "Carboniferous" | | | | dinosaur eggs, embryos, and skeletons of babies, and, |
| strata (the apparent region below the sedimentary | | | | the largest concentration of adult dinosaurs ever, |
| fossil layers, subjected to greater pressures, and | | | | anywhere. |
| where the fossil fuels like coal are found) | | | | · Nebraska; Agate Springs: 9,000 complete |
| European Finds | | | | animal carcasses of all kinds, buried simultaneously, in |
| · Britain, Chalk Beds: burial site for many large | | | | one hill that covers a wide area! |
| ammonites (mullusks) and other marine creatures, an | | | | Another Fossil Graveyard contains rhinos, horses, and |
| impossibility except as "many trillions of microscopic | | | | camels buried in volcanic ash, covering several hundred |
| marine creatures" did the honors simultaneously, in a | | | | square miles, up to 10 ft. deep in places. The eruption |
| great catastrophe; can only form in shallow water, as | | | | was 100 times Mt. St. Helens and may have happened |
| the calcium carbonate shells of marine protozoa and | | | | during the flood. An example of the weight and |
| algae would dissolve on their way to the bottom, in a | | | | devastation that can be wrought by volcanic ash can |
| deep ocean | | | | be seen in the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines incident, |
| A Global Fossil Graveyard: these chalk beds, which | | | | following an eruption that threw heavy wet ash onto |
| begin in the UK, are universal; they stretch all the way | | | | Clark Air Base, covering the ground and destroying |
| across Europe to the Middle East, and, beyond, to the | | | | buildings in the process. Up to 60' of ash fell upon |
| Midwest of the US; thus, chalk beds found in North | | | | Herculaneum in AD 79, when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. |
| America, Australia, Europe, Asia and Africa are of the | | | | · Nebraska, Neligh: Ashfall Fossil Beds, have |
| same age, and, they rest upon the same type of | | | | nothing to do with the flood; interesting solely because |
| glauconitic sandstone-which means and proves that | | | | it is the only place in the world having large numbers of |
| they all had to have been formed at the same time by | | | | mammals-17 species, more than 200 skeletons of |
| the same phenomenon, that being a miraculously | | | | rhinos (the most numerous), camels, three-toed horses, |
| instigated global flood of waters, that form a shallow | | | | and other vertebrate-preserved whole, in |
| sea, covering the whole earth. | | | | three-dimensional skeletons. All bones are still in their |
| England, Fifeshire: well-preserved fish found in | | | | proper order, joined together. They died near a |
| sandstone, in quantities of more than 1000/sq. yard | | | | watering hole. There are no dinosaurs. |
| · France, Montceau-les-Mines: fossil graveyard | | | | · New Mexico, : Seismosaurous, largest |
| containing "...hundreds of thousands of marine | | | | dinosaur found to date; may have a lot of real bone, |
| creatures...buried with amphibians, spiders, scorpions, | | | | as well as bone protein |
| millipedes, insects, and reptiles." A group of poly-strate | | | | · New Mexico, Abaquiu; Ghost Ranch: one of |
| tree trunks, passing through many layers of sediment | | | | the richest dinosaur finds in the world (see side bar |
| rock. | | | | above); cause of death, "Paleontologists believe that |
| · Germany, ; polystrate tree trunks, a large | | | | the collection of fossils was the result of a mass |
| number of them, in an open-cast mine, that pass | | | | death...a flash flood buried them in a muddy sediment |
| through 20' or more of different types of sedimentary | | | | where they were preserved", before they could |
| rock layers, which means they were buried quickly, not | | | | decompose, or, be eaten by scavengers |
| over millions of years (otherwise decomposition would | | | | · Utah; : many dinosaur fossil graveyards |
| have destroyed the positions above the lowest layer!) | | | | · Utah, Colorado: Dinosaur National Monument |
| · Italy, Sicily: Mt. Etna, 4000' above sea | | | | fossil quarry-site of 1,600 fossilized dinosaur bones; 350 |
| level-two graves, each crammed and jam packed with | | | | million tons of fossils, inclusive of complete skeletons, |
| thousands of hippopotamus bones; the beds of these | | | | have been excavated thus far; 2000 dinosaur bones |
| bones are said to be so extensive that they are mined | | | | have been left exposed |
| as a source of charcoal! | | | | · Wyoming, Green River Formation (a most |
| · Malta: island nation approx. 60 miles south of | | | | intriguing and significant find, given that there has been |
| Sicily, has a bone yard mixture of lions, tigers, | | | | no known instance of ocean waters this far inland, for |
| mammoths, birds, beavers, hippopotamus and | | | | millennia; it is held to be a "4000-year deposition" that |
| foxes-said to be awe inspiring for quantity. One cave | | | | formed "in deep water, far from shore"): fossilized fish |
| on Malta has many more fossils than it could ever | | | | died in the act of swallowing another fish (fossil shown |
| possibly support for even one week! | | | | in a photograph by Dr. Andrew Snelling, who holds a |
| · Scotland: fish beds of the Scottish Devonian | | | | PhD in geology from the University of Sydney. He also |
| Stratum | | | | has photos of fossils that depict a female, 6' long |
| · Spain, near Cuenca: Lo Hueco, a massive | | | | marine reptile called an ichthyosaur, fossilized in the act |
| graveyard, biggest ever discovered in Europe, a | | | | of giving birth, as well as an exquisitely preserved, |
| spectacular find of dinosaurs and other creatures, all | | | | fossilized jellyfish-which, being delicate in the extreme, |
| grouped together in clay and silt sediment deposits, | | | | are known for melting in sunlight and being destroyed |
| densely packed on a small hill-highly suggestive of | | | | when crashed by waves onto beaches. Each of |
| flooding, according to paleontologist Jose Sanz, from | | | | these facts and more require rapid fossilization of |
| the Autonomous University of Madrid (other scientists | | | | creatures while they are alive, as can only occur during |
| apparently concur, given the presence of a 'fluvial' | | | | a cataclysm of water, such as the Bible's flood.)! |
| channel, citing potential for a natural catastrophe or | | | | Meanwhile, back in Green River, there are alligators, |
| 'flash flood', according to the online report "History: Lo | | | | fish (sunfish, deep sea bass, chubs, pickerel, herring, |
| Hueco Cuenca", by M. P., and Fernando Escasco, | | | | and garpike 3-7' long), birds, turtles, mammals, mollusks, |
| quoted in an article on apologetics.org as citing "heavy | | | | crustaceans, many varieties of insects, and palm |
| flooding".); thousands of fossils (8000 found as of Dec. | | | | leaves 7-9' long, all buried together |
| 10, 2007); eight different species of dinosaur, 14 | | | | · Tennessee, : polystrate tree, 12' tall, showing |
| crocodiles, dozens of tortoises; several types of | | | | signs of decay within three months, meaning the |
| armor-clad plant eating sauropods called titanosaurs, | | | | several layers of strata surrounding it took place in less |
| which number among the world's largest, being huge | | | | time than that-not over millions of years. |
| having long necks. They are the site's most numerous | | | | A Lepidodedrid Tree, standing with its base in the |
| remains. Pre-historic turtles and crocodiles also figure in | | | | Pewee Coal seam, reaches another 20' high through |
| abundance at the site. The site is said to provide new | | | | layers of sedimentary rock (from "The |
| proofs that the dinosaur count was not in decline, as | | | | Creation-evolution Controversy" By R. L. |