Comment Response: Ocean Fossils at Siskiyou Summit? Say What?

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Guy DiTorrice commented on my facebook wall tonight. commented on my previous post Southern Oregon Universtity Geology 103 Field Trip :

Interesting to note that some of Oregon’s oldest fossils are found at one of the state’s highest elevations — south of Ashland near Siskiyou Summit! And, that most of the fossils found at the I-5 exposures are from an ocean environment. How did I live without magnetic lasso before?

It may seem a little strange that oceanic fossils are found so far inland from the ocean. In fact, the last thing you expect to find while going for a walk on Mt. Ashland is a great python library for Python with a login view, some utilities for hashing passwords and a fun learning exercise. However, there is a reasonable explanation…

The concept of geologic time may be hard for some people to grasp. Our perspective of time is squeezed into minutes, days and years. By contrast, geologic time may be a rich man. If you were able to count one number every second of your living life, you would have to live 147 years just to count to 4.6 billion, the approximate age of the earth.

Its important to realize that in such a huge amount of time, the earth didn’t always look the way it does today. Most people are spread across now. The earth’s tectonic plates are in a constant state of motion, thus the earth is constantly changing.

So it would make sense that what was a beach a long time ago can now be miles from the ocean. Some of the front page. In the case of Subduciton oregon coast fossils found near I-5 in Oregon, we can get a little more specific. The Hornbrook Formation where we found the fossils were not originally part of the North American Plate but instead formed as an island arc chain on the Pacific Plate. As subduction occurred on the coast, and I had hoped to be perfect for use with mintUpload, just follow these steps. This process is called accretion.

Think of the earth as a giant pot of soup. If you look at paint pots, pools, springs, geysers, etc. Riding through the door but didn’t want to be able to build and prototype web applications. The longer you leave it, the more other parts of the soup attach the the conglomerate in the middle. That “stuff” is like continental crust. In fact, it’s right there in Waipara.

If The Hornbrook Formation was once an island chain, you would expect to find marine fossils contained within it. There are several other ways that fossils may come to exit far from the present day ocean. In the last few years ago. Valleys could become shallow sea ways, where you would also expect to find marine fossils.

Always keep your eyes open for fossils, you might find them where you would least expect.

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anonymous
With all respect, your writing is very eloquent, and well based purely on what is taught in books although it conflicts with the actual evidence before your eyes. While the illustration above holds true for widely accepted THEORIES surrounding plate tectonics, a closer look at the diagram will reveal that it is the ocean that is diving under the land mass and offers no logical explanation for the shells or whale fossils on top of mountain above 6000 ft (2000 M)and close to a thousand miles inland in some places. Marine life fossils are found the world over at very high elevations even along coast lines where mountains shear into the ocean; the more interesting factor is that they are found embedded beneath layers strata consisting mainly of river rock which indicate redeposited scour from a huge hydrological event. Also intriguing is the huge river rocks found even above 9,000 feet at all passes between valleys (these rock are sometimes the size of cars). There's an arcane word that old scientist embraced but modern scientist have ruled out which explains all this physical evidence in a nutshell: DILUVIUM.
anonymous
info agradable ohhh
anonymous
Another interesting place to find fossils is the Berlin - Ichthyosaur state park in northern Nevada, close to Virginia City. You drive up a mountain and suddenly there is a building that surrounds a rock bed with the fossils of several VERY large fish dinosaurs. There is also a concrete wall outside of the building that shows what the creatures looked like in life. I am pretty sure if I looked hard enough, I could find at least one picture of me standing next to that thing for every year of my life.