Dinosaur

[Kingsway]

The first dinosaur to be found in Norway - a Plateosaurs from 200 million years ago - has been discovered at a depth of 2256 metres (7402 feet or nearly one and a half miles). However did it get down there?

[gary baldy]

I was trying to think of a really funny and somewhat sarcastic answer to this but couldnt think of one!
Instead i suggest you familiarise yourself with the fundamentals of geology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology

[Kingsway]

Oh, but you did - what you have written is really funny and somewhat sarcastic.

[gary baldy]

Did that link make it any clearer though?

[Kingsway]

No. Not at all. That link is way above my head. All I can see is a blessed great dinosaur munching away a mile and a half under where I am standing. Are they still burrowing away down there ?

[Clanad]

Let me see if I can help Kingsway... first take a look at this entertaining site:
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lesson s/Pangea/Pangea4.html

You can see that just before the age of the dinosaurs the land mass that would eventually become the various continents of the earth were all closely associated in a mass that geologists have called Pangea... Over the millions of years the plates upon which all continents rest moved and are still moving. Where they butt against one another a subduction zone was created. One plate was forcefully moved downward while the other was forced upwards. (This is the cause of the Christmas tsunami two years ago)... It's also the area where the world's volcano activity is centered. Hence mountains are built and then are eroded away by weather. In doing so, fossils and other artifacts are buried. Sometimes the fossils come to the surface by the erosion activity and sometimes the fossils are found by excavation. So... long winded way of saying the fossil you're discussing was once on top of the earth (when the animal died) was buried, became fossilized and was subsequently covered... in this case very deep... (Written test in 10 minutes, class)...

[jno]

200 million years is a very long time. Mountains rise and fall. Deposits of soil are laid down and erode away. What was once the earth's surface may in some places (like this one) end up miles underground or under water. Depend on it, it was once on the surface - and it wasn't anything like Norway in those days.

[lady_p_gold]

It was probably searching for its mate - Platochips

[vehelpfulguy]

One way to help understand how much the surface of the earth has changed is as follows.

Did you know the white cliffs of dover (the chalk) is made of the bodies of millions and millions of the shells of sea creatures that died and fell to the bottom of the sea.

But now what was at the bottom of the sea is now the cliffs, which are above the sea.

In the same way you ask how did the dinosour get down there, you could ask how did the sea creatures get up there.

[WaldoMcFroog]

God put it there to test us.

[Drusilla1S]

This may help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4950540.st m

[jno]

lovaduck Waldo - I've only just finished Clanad's test (6 out of 10, I spelt Plateosaur wrong) and now I've got one coming from God as well?

[Tatty Rollox]

..... and at http://tinyurl.com/fnh68 we have some plateosaur's ......

[Tatty Rollox]

....... just by chance I have come across this at http://tinyurl.com/qlowu . It is a Tyrannosaurus Rex cut into 10 acre maize crop with 4 miles of paths forming a labyrinth maze. The maize is now 4ft high and will grow to 10ft. It is at Oundle, Northants, and anyone wanting a mazey day out can get the details from http://tinyurl.com/g2hhh ........

[Kingsway]

Thank you everyone for your contribution. What an amazing range from plates overlapping to continental drift then the white cliffs of Dover ending with a dinosaur maze in Northamptonshire. Thanks again.

[lulu-hunnie]

it did a triple somersault backflip then nose dived in forgettin to pull the chord on his parachuete he sadly hit the floor and later died and went to dinasour heaven :D