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about fossilized foot prints (fwd) From:
MX%"hjarvis@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU" 29-JAN-1997 11:01:12.12 From:
UBWings Mailer <wings@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU> > How long does it takes
to be fossillized a human footprint? Footprints do not fossilize
in the same was as bones. Essentially a footprint is
"fossilized" as soon as the layer it is in is covered by another
layer of different texture. This can be due to something as
simple as a single flood at the right time. > Is it possible to
determine the longevity of the soil where the > footprints are
located? I am not sure what the question here is intended to be.
Is it: how long can soils last? The answer is for hundreds of
millions of years, if not billions of years. I know of soils
from as far back as the early Paleozoic, and there may well be
Proterozoic fossil soils. Any book or article by Retallack is a
good source for information on fossil soils. He is prob