Wednesday, February 15, 2017

ARCHAEOLOGY: MegaBoneBed in Canada


And, behold, I, even I,
do bring a flood of waters upon the earth,
to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life,
from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
Genesis 6:17
"The fossils of dinosaurs (as for some other animals) are often found jumbled and smashed together in big fossil graveyards or
bonebeds. Some are so large they are referred to as megabonebeds. Now the biggest dinosaur megabonebed ever found has been discovered near Hilda, about 50 km north of Medicine Hat in Alberta, Canada. It contains thousands of remains, mostly of the plant-eating ceratopsian (horned) dinosaur Centrosaurus.
Such finds are forcing progressive revision of previously common uniformitarian explanations for bonebeds, such as dinos drowned while crossing a river. Researchers have this time interpreted the animals as having died during the flooding of a vast coastal landscape during a huge storm. They say that “with no high ground to escape to, most of the members of the herd drowned in the rising coastal waters. Carcasses were deposited in clumps across kilometres of ancient landscape as floodwaters receded.” Sound a bit like something a global Flood might do?" CMI