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26 Polystrate fossils
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Time and again one finds fossil tree trunks, plants and animals, which extend through several geological layers (Polystrate fossils). The problem is that these layers are often attributed a radiometric age difference of several thousand or even tens of thousands of years. Thus, on the Hauenstein (in Switzerland) a fossil ichthyosaur was found, which extended through three layers. As a fish starts to decompose after only a few days, layers, such as the one on the Hauenstein, must have been laid down very quickly. A tree trunk must be encased within a few years or decades for it to be petrified before it disintegrates.
The article “Hauenstein ichthyosaur puzzle solved?“ in the NZZ (Neue Zürcher newspaper) of 12 March 2004 makes it clear how the model of a billion year old Earth is taken for granted in the public media. The attempted explanation, that the ichthyosaur of Hauenstein was retroactively impelled through several layers by an ‘internal explosion’, is somewhat strange (1). How could the carcass have remained completely undamaged?
"Unusual means" in interdisciplinary research and collaboration would have given the answer to the embedding and fossilisation of the “Hauenstein Pig Head“. Apart from the classic methods of geology and palaeontology, forensic and veterinary medicine, gynaecology, marine biology and computer tomography, submarine technology and others were also employed (2).
Certainly, the original paper by Hannes Hänggi and Achim G. Reisdorf has earned recognition (3). Assuming that the ichthyosaur really is 190 million years old and the layers through which it extends must be ascribed an age difference of more than just a few days, then they have worked out a valid explanation .
Yet which of thefollowing explanations is, in the final analysis, more plausible?
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The carcass was retroactively impelled through several layers and remained undamaged, or
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The limestone layers in which the fossil was found were laid down in a very short time .
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Because Polystrate fossils, such as this fish, are by no means a rarity, all the common timetables should be critically assessed.
Especially in coal bearing layers one finds carbonised or petrified Polystrate tree trunks (4), which illustrates that the geological layers in which they are found probably came into existence much more rapidly than estimated by conventional geology (5).
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Polystrate tree trunk:
A polystrate trunk, found and photographed in North America. |
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Discovery in Australia / Old drawing: A polystrate tree trunk, found and photographed in Australia. In addition, a historical sketch, which shows that this phenomenon in Geology has long been known.
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Rolf Höneisen, Den Kopf im Fels, factum März 2004, http://www.factum-magazin.ch/wFactum_de/natur/Palaeontologie/Hauenstein_Ichthy.php. |
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A. Niederer, Ichthyosaurier-Rätsel vom Hauenstein gelöst? Der Weg des Schädels durch drei Gesteinsschichten, NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Nr. 60, 12. März 2004, Page 19. |
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Hannes Hänggi und Achim G. Reisdorf, Der Ichthyosaurier vom Hauensteiner Nebelmeer - Wie eine Kopflandung die Wissenschaft Kopf stehen lässt, http://www.ngso.ch/06_Publikationen/PDF/120312_Saurier_7_22.pdf |
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Michael J. Oard und Hank Giesecke, Polystrate Fossils Require Rapid Deposition, CRSQ 43/4, März 2007 Pages 232–240. |
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Joachim Scheven, Karbonstudien, Hänssler-Verlag, 1986, Pages 31–41. | |
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(Image "Polystrate tree trunk") Creation, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2007 S. 54.
(Image "Discovery in Australia") Technical Journal, Vol. 6 (Part 2), 1992, front page.
(Image "Old drawing") Creation, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2007 S. 55. |
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