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Then how would we have dinosaur bones from 65 million years ago +?
by 36bydesignBL 8y ago
Then how would we have dinosaur bones from 65 million years ago +?
- ianai 8y agoFossils represent a very tiny portion of whatever was there at that time.
- ceejayoz 8y agoYes, but the point is the 1.7 M number for total crust turnover can't be valid, as none of that tiny portion would still exist.
- aalleavitch 8y agoI find it hard to believe that there won't be at least some human fossils lying around 60 million years from now.
- lostlogin 8y agoIt’s an angle that a funeral directors could use as a selling point - Fossilisation.
- danielsju6 8y agoWe don't have bones, we have fossils.
- ceejayoz 8y agoFossilized bones (plus the occasional feather/tissue), and way to miss the point.
- danielsju6 8y agoNot trying to be pedantic but the devil is in the details. Bones are common, fossils are formed by a relatively rare geologic process. Fossilization supplants slow to rot organic material with stone, embedding it in the strata, in just the right conditions. It's unclear to me what (if any) industrial rememants would become fossilized and if they'd be recognizable as such.
- wycx 8y agoGiven that pillow lavas can be recognised in some eclogite facies rocks, I think a porcelain toilet would stand a good chance of remaining recognisable at all the way to granulite or eclogite facies, as long as it is not too deformed.
- Udik 8y agoPyramids? Statues? Stuff that is already made of stone to start with?
- tytytytytytytyt 8y agoHow long has it taken the pyramids to decay to their current status?