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Author Topic:   fossils and catastrophism.. Funk has a question
Coragyps
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02-05-2003 5:16 PM


Let's just take one example: the Mississippi River, back before the Corps of Engineers channelized it. In 1928, my mother-in-law told me, the Mississippi flooded everything west to Selma, Arkansas, a distance of about 40 miles. That was a big flood, yes, but not much bigger than two or three others in the previous century. Each drowned a bunch of cows, and more rabbits and groundhogs, and possibly quite a few of these were buried fast enough, and enough away from oxygen, to start to fossilize.
So give me three floods per century, and five million years for the Miss. to stay in roughly the same channel: that's 150,000 floods! That should be plenty to leave a fossil or two lying around. And flooding rivers aren't even terribly good places to make fossils, anyway - lakes along the lines of the Black Sea with productive surface layers and poisonous (hydrogen sulfide - rich) deep layers are much better.

  
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