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       #Post#: 2007--------------------------------------------------
       How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Twinc
       Date: May 22, 2015, 9:10 am
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       to bury and fossilise a Dinosaur - how long did it take - twinc
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Kerry
       Date: May 22, 2015, 9:21 pm
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       I never fossilized anything so I can't say I know.
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Twinc
       Date: May 23, 2015, 8:30 am
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       > I never fossilized anything so I can't say I know.
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       an upright Dinosaur or woolly Mammoth - guess - twinc
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Kerry
       Date: May 23, 2015, 10:11 am
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       > an upright Dinosaur or woolly Mammoth - guess - twinc
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       It would probably take me at least a hundred years to dig a hole
       big enough to  bury a big dinosaur or a woolly mammoth; and by
       that time,  there wouldn't be much to bury.  Give me a backhoe
       and maybe I could do the burying part in a few days.     Then I
       guess I could dig it up every hundred years or so to see if it
       had fossilized yet or not.
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Twinc
       Date: May 23, 2015, 10:40 am
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       > It would probably take me at least a hundred years to dig a
       hole big enough to  bury a big dinosaur or a woolly mammoth; and
       by that time,  there wouldn't be much to bury.  Give me a
       backhoe and maybe I could do the burying part in a few days.
       Then I guess I could dig it up every hundred years or so to see
       if it had fossilized yet or not.
       >
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       no backhoes or bulldozers allowed or hundreds of years millions
       of years ago - twinc
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Kerry
       Date: May 23, 2015, 7:39 pm
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       > no backhoes or bulldozers allowed or hundreds of years
       millions of years ago - twinc
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       After I got the thing buried in the hole it took me a hundred
       years to dig, I think I could do it in ten or twenty years or so
       if I had a good environment and the right materials with the
       right kind of water replenishment.   But to be on the safe side,
       give me 10,000 years in case I make mistakes.  It might  help if
       I could have a backhoe to dig a channel to make sure the water
       supply was right.
  HTML http://www.aaps-journal.org/submission%20pdf/How%20to%20Make%20a%20Fossil.pdf
       We don’t know how long it took for fossilization of the
       Stegosaurus skeleton to occur. Experimental work I have
       conducted has shown that the process does not necessarily take
       very long (Carpenter 2005). Under ideal situations, a dinosaur
       could be fossilized in only a few years. The rate seems
       dependent upon the supply of dissolved atoms and molecules in
       the water available for bacterial use. This in turn is dependent
       upon the replenishment rate of the water. The rate is faster for
       bone buried in sand than for bone buried in mud, because ground
       water can flow more freely around the sand grains than around
       the clay particles.
       Maybe we should have a competition to see who can fossilize a
       dinosaur a skeleton the fastest.
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Twinc
       Date: May 24, 2015, 5:25 am
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       > After I got the thing buried in the hole it took me a hundred
       years to dig, I think I could do it in ten or twenty years or so
       if I had a good environment and the right materials with the
       right kind of water replenishment.   But to be on the safe side,
       give me 10,000 years in case I make mistakes.  It might  help if
       I could have a backhoe to dig a channel to make sure the water
       supply was right.
       >
       >
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       > We don’t know how long it took for fossilization of the
       Stegosaurus skeleton to occur. Experimental work I have
       conducted has shown that the process does not necessarily take
       very long (Carpenter 2005). Under ideal situations, a dinosaur
       could be fossilized in only a few years. The rate seems
       dependent upon the supply of dissolved atoms and molecules in
       the water available for bacterial use. This in turn is dependent
       upon the replenishment rate of the water. The rate is faster for
       bone buried in sand than for bone buried in mud, because ground
       water can flow more freely around the sand grains than around
       the clay particles.
       >
       > Maybe we should have a competition to see who can fossilize a
       dinosaur a skeleton the fastest.
       >
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       without you there to protect it and bury it, how long would it
       take to bury itself or more exactly get itself buried - twinc
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       Re: How long does it take ?
   DIR By: Kerry
       Date: May 24, 2015, 5:59 am
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       > without you there to protect it and bury it, how long would it
       take to bury itself or more exactly get itself buried - twinc
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       That would probably have to happen fairly quickly.  Most bones
       don't become fossils since they decay first.  That's my
       understanding of it.
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