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Dinosaur
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?
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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
Instead i suggest you familiarise yourself with the fundamentals of geology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology
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)...
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)...
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.
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.
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.
..... and at http://tinyurl.com/fnh68 we have some plateosaur's ......
....... 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 ........
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