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How could more than 300 whales, porpoises, turtles, seals, fish and land animals such as sloths and penguins be catastrophically buried together?
'We know it was a great discovery, "said paleontologist Leonard Brand about fossilized whale was in Peru in 1999, 350km (200 miles) south of Lima, the capital. Anxiously organized a team of research scientists creationists. They published their findings recently in the journal Geology secular. 1,2,3
Overall, they found 346 whales in a 1.5-km2 area (370 acres), buried in a layer of sedimentary rock called diatomite, 80 meters (260 feet) thick. This layer is part of the Pisco Formation, which varies in fat of 200-1000 meters (650-3300 feet).
The diatomite is sedimentary rock containing a high percentage of fossil diatoms-small unicellular algae, which commonly live near the sea surface. The layer of diatomaceous earth in Peru has 5 to 10% of mud and abundant volcanic ash. Today
when diatoms die, their silica skeletons accumulate on the sea floor. One gram (0.035 ounces) of this clay comes to contain more than 400 million skeletons. Diatomaceous sediments slowly accumulate normally only a few centimeters per thousand years 1. Even where the rate is higher, as in some shallow areas, the accumulation is slow too. For example, in the fjords of British Columbia, diatoms accumulate 2.5-5.0 mm per year.
Even now, when a whale carcass sinks to the ocean, many kinds of scavengers quickly attack and colonize it. And in their search for food, some scavengers waving the adjacent sediments.
However, in Peru, fossilized whales and diatoms are well preserved and the skeletons of whales are almost intact. There was no evidence of putrefaction normal as worm holes, barnacle-encrusted or general degradation. Nor was there evidence that organisms have shaken the adjacent sediments.
skeletons of whales were partially mineralized, and remarkably, the beard of five of the whales was preserved. The whalebone forming a brush-like structure at the mouth of the whale and is used to filter their food. This is notable because it is softer than bone, the same composition as human fingernails. There
doubt that these well-preserved whale, buried in diatomite indicate rapid burial. After eliminating other possibilities, Brand and his coauthors concluded:
'The most likely explanation for the preservation of whales seems to be that there was a rapid burial, fast enough to meet whales 5-13 m in length in a few weeks or months, considering the well-preserved bones and some soft tissues. "
burial Such times are probably a maximum, based on comparison with modern environments. It could have been even faster than a few weeks.
Outstanding quickly whale fossils buried contradict one of the ruling principles of modern geology, uniformitarianism-that is, the rocks were formed slowly in the past similar to what we observe in the present. Interpreted according to this principle, the whales were buried over a period of 2 million years 10 million years ago. However, the fact that 80 m of sediment buried to 346 whales in months or weeks (or less) creates a problem for those who believe in the millions of years. Where to put the time? There is no place for it in the rocks.
whale cemetery fits much more comfortably with the timeline of the Bible thousands of years.
So, instead of uniformitarianism, we adopt the framework of the Bible. But then another question arises. Did the Genesis Flood whales buried, or was just a local disaster after the Flood?
The report of Geology, we know that they had strong water currents in the region, as there are abundant small channels that were formed and filled with sediment flow in the Pisco Formation. There was also time for shark carcasses, as scientists shark teeth found with the skeletons. In fact, they became aware of some whale bones embedded at the tip of shark teeth. The team found other vertebrates in the deposit along with the whales and sharks. Among them: fish, turtles, seals, porpoises, penguins, and even lazy.
Brand and his team accept a shallow marine environment of post-flood. They suggest that whales and marine vertebrates were killed when a sudden flowering mass (multiplication) of diatoms, side streams swollen by water, poisoned water.
There is no evidence that whales were Baradas on the beach. Ash from volcanic eruptions could have provided nutrients for an explosion in the population of diatoms.
However, the existence of terrestrial animals, especially lazy people seem to be a problem here. A similar post-flood scenario was applied to a whale found in diatomite at Lompoc, California.
other hand, the whales may have been buried by the flood described in Genesis. The rapid deposition of 80 m of diatomite full of skeletons of marine and terrestrial animals seems more a sign of the flood. Sloths are associated with post-Ice Age Flood but also lived before the Flood. Diatoms and the whales may have built up through a process comparable to the Flood as suggested in the chalk of southern England. Crete, or limestone, is similar to diatomite in that it is shells of countless micro-organisms (but no calcium carbonate instead of silica).
To distinguish between the possibilities of post-Flood and Flood, need more information on deposits.
However, the 346 whale fossils buried in the sediment thickness, mud and diatom, graphically illustrates the accuracy of biblical history. The remarkable finding points to a rapid and catastrophic burial, which is consistent with the time frame of the Bible, a time frame of thousands of years.
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3. Esperante, R., Brand, L., Chadwick, A. and Poma, O., Taphonomy of fossil whales in the sediments diatomaceous clay Formation Pisco Late Miocene / Pliocene, Peru (taphonomy of fossil whales in the diatomaceous sediments of the Miocene / Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru), in: De Renzi, J. et al. (Eds.), Current topics on taphonomy and fossilization, Junta de Valencia, International Congress, Valencia, Spain, pp. 337-343, 2002.
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