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       DATING FOSSILS
       By: Admin Date: January 23, 2017, 3:24 pm
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       Evidence
       - The following are evidences of instantaneous catastrophes in
       earth's distant past, and instant fossilization:
       Trilobites Buried in Life Position
       - In March 2011, it was discovered that a large number of
       trilobites had been instantaneously fossilized by sediment so
       rapid it froze them in life position while they were migrating
       and mating.
       “ 
       Poland, Brett has analyzed multiple examples of mass trilobite
       burial. A smothering death by tons of hurricane-generated storm
       sediment was so rapid that the trilobites are preserved in life
       position. These geologic 'snapshots' record behavior in much the
       way that ancient Roman life was recorded at Pompeii by volcanic
       ash... The mass burials preserve large groups of similar-sized –
       and therefore similarly aged – specimens, segregated by species
       and, after molting, 'naked.' 'It’s an ****,' Brett said. Brett
       and colleagues found evidence of another behavioral connection
       to modern arthropods – long chains of trilobites apparently
       fossilized in mid-migration. 'The recent discovery of rows of
       more than a dozen specimens provides the oldest evidence of
       migratory queues similar to those seen in modern crustaceans,'
       Brett said. Taken together, the mass burials record an array of
       communal behaviors in ancient trilobites, comparable to those
       seen in some living crustaceans."
       - -Greg Hand, University of Cincinnati, 2011[6]
       - - 
       - This was in 1981 presented by Josh McDowell and Don Stewart in
       Reasons Skeptics Should Consider Christianity as explainable
       only by a rapid catastrophe. How do you preserve footprints,
       especially footprints with raindrop indentations? As recently as
       2012, we continue to find out how different ancient earth's
       atmosphere was from today's (see Canopy Theory) because of
       fossilized raindrops:
       “ 
       imprints of raindrops discovered in ancient rock in South
       Africa. Those same weather marks are giving researchers a
       clearer picture of what Earth's early atmosphere was like. Back
       then, the sun was about 30 percent dimmer, giving off less heat,
       which suggests our planet should have frozen over. As for why it
       didn't, and why rocks show evidence of abundant water as far
       back as 4 billion years, scientists have suggested a much
       thicker atmosphere, high concentrations of greenhouse gases, or
       a combination of the two kept early Earth toasty. 'Because the
       sun was so much fainter back then, if the atmosphere was the
       same as it is today the Earth should have been frozen,' study
       researcher Sanjoy Som, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Ames
       Research Center, said in a statement. The new results suggest an
       atmosphere full of strong greenhouse gases, like methane, at the
       time helped keep the Earth warm instead of becoming an icy
       Hoth-like planet."
       - -Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience, 2012[7]
       - - Mass Marine Extinctions
       - In 2011 it was discovered that a rapid catastrophe led to
       deoxygenation and rising CO2 levels in ancient oceans, resulting
       in mass extinction of marine organisms worldwide.[8]
       “ 
       high carbon dioxide concentrations shows that warm oceans with
       high CO2 levels and low-ocean conditions have experienced mass
       extinctions of marine organisms. Scientists from the UK and
       Australia examined ocean sediment samples off the coast of
       western Africa from the late Cretaceous period, 85 million years
       ago, an epoch of high atmospheric CO2 levels. The researchers
       found a significant amount of organic matter from marine
       organisms buried within the deoxygenated sediment layers,
       indicating that these organisms suffered mass die-offs as CO2
       levels rose, ocean temperatures increased, and the oceans held
       less oxygen."
       - -Yale Environment 360, 2011[9]
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