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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 6:38 am
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(June 19, 2019 at 6:33 am)jessieban Wrote: Is that a trick question?
No?
As I posted, I'm neither a geologist nor palentologist.
But my question is to try and put both our minds in the same frame.
As far as I am aware, fossils are only found in sedimentary rocks. Or the very rock itself is the remains of things 'Changed' into rock (White cliffs of Dover and other such 'Chalk' deposits)
Are we in accord?
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 6:56 am
Guys, are the perfectly volcanic ash preserved bodies from Pompeii technically called "fossils" or just "pissweak slow runners" ...
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 7:05 am
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At work.
Well..... considering the speeds that pyroclastic flows clock in at?
Even Olympic athletes would end up as rock cavities.
Also note the difference between a Pompeii victim and a fossil.
The poor souls at Pompeii pretty much left nothing more behind that a cavity in the solidifying ash with bones at the bottom.
Also...... volcanic ash, mud etc is not bassalt rock either. 
Some fossile have enough texture to make out skin creases.
Then there's the fossils where other minerals have replaced 'Bone' with opal. One 'Shiny' T-Rex there.
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 7:15 am
I thought this was about Phaedrus.
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 7:19 am
(June 19, 2019 at 5:56 am)jessieban Wrote: Just bc u use the rocks the fosill was in, doesn't mean the fossil is that old. It could be older or younger than the rock, that's like finding an apple with a worm in it and saying that's how old the worm is based on decay of apple. Very strange! Or like taking a honda accord, or a piece of it and finding it in some rock and saying that's how old the honda is, we don't know, may be older or younger, can't base it off rocks can you?
1. Please tell us about this dead dinosaur time travel theory of yours.
2. The apple and the worm probably do date to the same year.
3. Do you have any examples of Honda Accords being found in rock you could share with us?
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 7:28 am
(June 19, 2019 at 5:56 am)jessieban Wrote: Just bc u use the rocks the fosill was in, doesn't mean the fossil is that old. It could be older or younger than the rock, that's like finding an apple with a worm in it and saying that's how old the worm is based on decay of apple. Very strange! Or like taking a honda accord, or a piece of it and finding it in some rock and saying that's how old the honda is, we don't know, may be older or younger, can't base it off rocks can you?
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 9:14 am
[hides hammer and chisel behind back] No, I was not chipping out this layer of sedimentary rock to put my poor dead dog into, just so I could come back in 100k years and call it a fossil.
You need to study some more geology, son.
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 9:28 am
(June 19, 2019 at 5:56 am)jessieban Wrote: Just bc u use the rocks the fosill was in, doesn't mean the fossil is that old. It could be older or younger than the rock, that's like finding an apple with a worm in it and saying that's how old the worm is based on decay of apple. Very strange! Or like taking a honda accord, or a piece of it and finding it in some rock and saying that's how old the honda is, we don't know, may be older or younger, can't base it off rocks can you?
You were banned under the name bonaparte. Now, you're back with a new name and the same IP.
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 9:40 am
At work.
Ah.... oh well.
Nice to have met you. All the best.
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RE: Dating Fossils
June 19, 2019 at 9:40 am
(June 19, 2019 at 5:56 am)jessieban Wrote: Just bc u use the rocks the fosill was in, doesn't mean the fossil is that old. It could be older or younger than the rock, that's like finding an apple with a worm in it and saying that's how old the worm is based on decay of apple. Very strange! Or like taking a honda accord, or a piece of it and finding it in some rock and saying that's how old the honda is, we don't know, may be older or younger, can't base it off rocks can you?
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