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Post by 1dave on May 24, 2024 12:36:44 GMT -5
our present best guess is that the universe is 13.8 Billion years old. About 4.5 billion years ago our solar system was formed out of the material ejected from star supernovas. Earth was created at that same time, along with the other planets. God's first Book about Earth is written in pages of Rock. Using Rock Columns we can tell the story of Utah's past. Here is a larger picture: As you see at the bottom, at first Earth was in the beginning, a molten sphere, peppered with impacts. Then another Planet or comet hit earth, removed 3/4 of the surface and filled it with water, and made the Moon. Every day earth receives over 500 tons of new Space dust and meteorites. over millions of years that is a lot. Where does that come from? That material changes from time to time. We need new terms to talk about it, so: Precambrian times there had to be iron rich comets in EZ-4 to create the Banded Iron layers found world wide Then a series of intermingled layers of limestone and sandstone Rodenia was an early Super continent, Utah existed above water on it. There was no sign of visible life any where. 600 million years ago life began to thrive in the sea during the Cambrian revolution. 500-600 Algae and simple invertebrates, like jellyfish & worms. Arthropods, brachiopods, & trilobites. You can see these layers of rock out west of Delta at Antelope Springs, or anywhere in the House Range. Ordovician 500-440 Graptolites, orthocerous, & primitive fish. The first vertebrates begin to appear. Silurian 440-395 The first true plants appear. Crinoids & eurypterids are abundant. The first air breathers. Devonian 395-360 Fish evolve into more complex animals. Sharks and amphibians multiply. Carboniferous 360-225Mya I suspect a new Comet entered EZ-6 at this time as carbon moons appeared around the outer planets and thick layers of carbon appeared on earth, causing massive plant growth. Mississippian (359.2 to 318.1 mya) Upper (328.3 to 318.1 mya) Middle (345.3 to 328.3 mya) Lower (359.2 to 345.3 mya) Pennsylvanian (318.1 to 299.0 mya) Upper (307.2 to 299.0 mya) Middle (311.7 to 307.2 mya) Lower (318.1 to 311.7 mya) Animal Life on dry land. Plentiful ferns. Reptiles evolve. Spiders, cockroaches, & scorpions appear. Permian 280-225 Reptiles become abundant. Pine-like trees develop. Trilobites become extinct. The super Continent Pangaea joined together with Utah on it's western shore around 320 million years ago. A comet hit Africa 175 million years ago, broke up Pangea, sending North America sailing westward, buckling the sea floor.
Mesozoic Era . . Period . . MYA . . Life Forms Triassic 225-190 The beginning of the dinosaurs. Plant eaters, meat eaters, flying reptiles, and crocodiles. As North America sailed west, the seafloor buckled, then broke. 10 million years later it happened again. Jurassic 190-136 Giant dinosaurs develop. Abundant plant life & shellfish, like ammonites, lobsters, and shrimp. Jurassic times had an unusual Ending. A comet appeared in the northern sky hurtling toward Earth. It hit on a low angle in the Beaufort Sea, and traveling over 20 miles per second, headed southeast to Mexico. This pushed the area down, allowing the formation off the Western Interior Waterway. Then with the Chicxulub Impact came the Greatest Magic Trick of all time! The waterway disappeared and in its place stood the mighty Rocky mountains. Cretaceous 136-65 The peak of development. Downfall of the great dinosaurs, like triceratops, t-rex, & pterodactyls. Deciduous trees develop. Ended with the asteroid impact that ended Cretaceous time.
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Post by 1dave on May 24, 2024 12:10:31 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on May 23, 2024 20:20:21 GMT -5
You may be interested in my book available at: Payhip.com/DaveCrosby I explain how all that gold got on the mountain tops.
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Post by 1dave on May 23, 2024 13:02:13 GMT -5
I believe old comets shed their water and gas and become asteroids and meteorites. Obviously this impact had a lot of water in it. Some do, some are failed planetoids others are shattered planetoids. If we look at the moon, its safe to say our planet got pummeled Let's take a look at comet impacts, what should we expect? A lot of water. What would that do? Wash away rock layers, leave a very large layer of huge well tumbled Rocks. Like the Great Unconformity. The tapeats Sandstone. I think comets have hit earth many times.
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Post by 1dave on May 22, 2024 9:42:12 GMT -5
Question, Comets are essentially dirty snowballs, and their tails are broken down to: Ion, Gas, and dust. Ion is blue and very very rarely we see it visually. Gas appears mostly green and many comets tend to look like this cyanide, carbon monoxide. White is a high dust emittance from the geysers on the comet. The reason Comet hale bopp was so bright. There was a tonne of dust for light to reflect I was wondering if a rubble pile asteroid could be the culprit. It would explain the concentrated nature of the deposits. Asteroid becomes strung out as it enters the orbit and enters as a string of impacts. Each one depositing the minerals as its impacting I believe old comets shed their water and gas and become asteroids and meteorites. Obviously this impact had a lot of water in it.
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Post by 1dave on May 22, 2024 8:57:17 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on May 21, 2024 11:34:43 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on May 21, 2024 11:03:29 GMT -5
geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/trilobites-and-cambrian-utah/Trilobites and the Cambrian Environment of Utah By Rebecca L. Hylland A collection of trilobite fossils on a rock of varying sizes. Trilobites. The very name conjures up images from “B” science-fiction movies of bug-eyed, wiggly-legged, insect-like creatures that eat New York. Two questions we commonly receive are “what are trilobites and where are they found in Utah?” What are Trilobites? Trilobites are members of the phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot animals). Arthropods have segmented bodies and appendages covered by an exoskeleton which provides support and protection for muscles and organs. Living Arthropods include insects, spiders, scorpions, ticks, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, and centipedes. Trilobites belong to an extinct class of marine organisms called Trilobita. This name refers to the three-part (tri-lobes) latitudinal and longitudinal shape of a trilobite’s exoskeleton. The latitudinal lobes consist of the cephalon (head), segmented thorax (body), and pygidium (tail); the longitudinal lobes consist of two lateral lobes (on each side of the body) and an axial lobe (central back area of the exoskeleton). When did they live? More than 500 different trilobite species have been found across Utah, in a broken band of Cambrian Period (570 to 500 million years old) limestones, siltstones, and shales that trends northeast-southwest across the western part of the state. During the Early Cambrian (about 570 to 540 million years ago), western Utah was covered by a shallow sea. Slow-moving rivers flowed across the sandy lowlands of eastern Utah deposited sediment into the sea. The heavier sediment (mostly sand) was deposited near the shoreline which metamorphosed through time into quartzite. The lighter sediments (mostly silt) were deposited farther out into the sea, and through time lithified into siltstone and shale. The deepest part of the sea was an ideal environment for the precipitation of calcium carbonate, which lithified to limestone. Regional subsidence during the Middle and Late Cambrian (about 540 to 500 million years ago), caused the sea’s shoreline to migrate eastward across Utah, allowing the deposition of a fairly complete sequence of Cambrian sediment in western Utah. Utah was located near the equator during the Cambrian, so the water temperature was warm. The combination of warm, shallow water and nutrient-rich silt allowed several marine genera to thrive. The most common and diverse of these were trilobites, which occupied several different marine environments. Where did they live in the sea? Most trilobite species were bottom dwellers that crawled over sand and mud. Some of them could curl up like modern pill bugs. Other trilobites burrowed into bottom sand and mud using their shovel-shaped cephalons. These crawling and burrowing trilobites were either scavengers, or they ingested mud and silt, digesting the organic material contained in it like modern day worms (annelids). Some trilobites lived in shallow burrows where they could keep their heads near the surface of the sand or mud, and grab passing prey. Fossil evidence suggests some trilobites were capable of swimming. The bodies of swimming trilobites are narrower and the eyes are closer to the sides of the cephalon, than those of bottom-dwelling trilobites. Swimming trilobites may have been predators, or they may have been “filter-feeders” using special appendages to remove nutrients from the surrounding water. The smallest trilobites were plankton-like and lived close to the water surface. Where are trilobites found in Utah? Trilobites are probably the most common fossils collected in Utah, many world-class specimens from this state reside in museums throughout the world. In Utah, trilobites can be found at several localities. House Range The Wheeler Amphitheater in the House Range, Millard County is one of the more well-known collecting areas. Most of the trilobites in this area come form the Middle Cambrian formation called the Wheeler Shale. The Wheeler Shale contains interbeds of shaley limestone, mudstone, and thin platy limestone. Another trilobite-bearing unit that directly overlies the Wheeler Shale in the central part of the House Range is the Marjum Formation. This formation consists of thin-bedded, fine-grained, silty limestone with interbeds of shale and mudstone. Also located in the central part of the House Range is a fossiliferous limestone called the Weeks Formation, that crops out in North Canyon near Notch Peak. The Weeks Formation overlies (is younger than) the Marjum Formation and also contains trilobites. Wellsville Mountains Another trilobite-bearing unit is the Spence Shale Member of the Langston Formation in the Wellsville Mountains, Box Elder County. Here, trilobites can be found in Miner’s Hollow, Cataract Canyon, Dry Canyon, and the area between Antimony and Hanson Canyons. Guide Book “A Collector’s Guide to Rock, Mineral and Fossil Localities in Utah” by James R. Wilson provides detailed descriptions on trilobite fossil localities. This book is available from the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore. Selected References Barnes, R. D., 1980, Invertebrate zoology: Philadelphia, Saunders College, p. 582-587. Gunther, L. F., Gunther, V. G., and Gunther, G., 1994, Some Middle Cambrian fossils of Utah, in Special issue on Utah: Utah Geological Survey Public Information Series 26, p. 59-62. Hintze, L. F. , 1988, Geologic history of Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies Special Publication 7, p. 14-19. Stokes, W. L., 1986, Geology of Utah: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication S, p. 47-56. Wilson, J. R., 1995, A collector’s guide to rock, mineral and fossil localities in Utah: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 95-4, p. 65-104.
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Post by 1dave on May 19, 2024 21:55:38 GMT -5
I see a girls face here in the white:
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Post by 1dave on May 15, 2024 9:31:19 GMT -5
And in the Tails of Comets! A tale of the Tails of Comets New book idea for dave I hope the fates are kind enough that we meet up one day. Knowledge is one thing, but understanding the context and its relation to nature is a whole other order of magnitude. Reading these articles shows me how little I knew, and I am glad. Its like reading a book for the first time. Thank you kindly
It is in my book at payhip.com/DaveCrosby
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Post by 1dave on May 14, 2024 19:56:00 GMT -5
I always wondered how gold got on the mountain tops of Alaska, the Yukon, Idaho, Montana, etc. Now i know it came from the tail of the Midas Comet, which continued to rain down for hours after the comet passed.
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Post by 1dave on May 14, 2024 13:08:35 GMT -5
Since gold is formed from supernovas, the primordial soup would be responsible for a lot of gold on earth....but I am willing to bet a fair amount of gold comes from meteor strikes And in the Tails of Comets!
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Post by 1dave on May 14, 2024 13:04:17 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on May 14, 2024 11:13:41 GMT -5
The Key to the whole thing was the Roberts Rift, which was caused by the Upheaval Comet impact (made the "uranium Rolls") Which created the Shock Waves to make the Standing Shock Wave to form Roberts Rift. a standing shock wave is formed when the incident Shock waves combine with reflected Shock waves, doubling their power.
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Post by 1dave on May 14, 2024 9:17:02 GMT -5
It's cloudinary with red stringers.
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Post by 1dave on May 13, 2024 8:48:13 GMT -5
Another Element brought by the Comet is uranium:
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Post by 1dave on May 11, 2024 8:43:39 GMT -5
Vanadium Locations in the world
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Post by 1dave on May 10, 2024 10:16:28 GMT -5
When the Midas Comet hit north America 100 million years ago, ending Jurassic Time and starting Cretaceous Time, now known as the Sevier Orogeny, it brought new Elements to earth. I've drawn a circle around the new elements here. Amazingly it is much the same list as those found where a comet hit Zimbabwe in Africa. Only our comet had twice as much Vanadium as it did Uranium in the Zimbabwe comet. Here is what you may find 1. Vanadinite (mixed with lead and chlorine) is a mineral belonging to the apatite group of phosphates, with the chemical formula Pb5(VO4)3Cl. 2. Carnotite was first described in 1899 by French scientists M. M. C. Freidel and E. Cumenge, who identified it in specimens from Roc Creek in Montrose County, Colorado, United States. It was named for Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839 - 1920), a French mining engineer and chemist. Carnotite in fossilized wood from St. George, Utah 3. Roscoelite is a green mineral from the mica group that contains vanadium, Named For British scientist Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915), of Manchester, England, who first prepared pure vanadium. It comes in TWO varieties" Mineral deposits that contain roscoelite, are either gold-silver-tellurium low temperature epithermal deposits where it occurs along with quartz, fluorite, pyrite and carbonates, Or oxidized low temperature uranium-vanadium ores in sedimentary rocks, where it occurs with corvusite, hewettite, carnotite and tyuyamunite. Roscoelite is a vanadium mica metamorphic mineral that forms a series with Muscovite. Mica formations are associated with volcanoes and hydrothermal vents. Occurrence: Massive, as impregnations, as minute scales, in druses, rosettes, or fan-shaped groups; fibrous and in felted aggregates. An early-stage gangue mineral in 1. low-temperature epithermal Au-Ag-Te deposits; 2. from the oxidized portions of low-temperature sedimentary U-V ores. Association: 1. quartz, pyrite, carbonates, fluorite, gold (Au-Ag-Te mineral association); 2. corvusite, hewettite, carnotite, tyuyamunite (U-V mineral association). Distribution: In the USA, from the Stuckslager mine, Lotus, El Dorado Co., California; in Colorado, from Cripple Creek, Teller Co., LaPlata district, LaPlata Co., Magnolia district, Boulder Co., the Gateway district, Mesa Co., in the Uravan and Paradox, Bull Canyon, and Slick Rock districts, in Montrose, San Miguel, and Dolores Cos. From the Spotted Horse mine, Maiden, Fergus Co., Montana; the Baker, Mammoth, and North Polemines, Baker Co., Oregon; in the Monument No.2 mine, Apache Co., and Monument No.1 and Mitten No.2 mines, Navajo Co., Arizona; from the Gold strike mine, Lynn district, Eureka Co., Nevada. At the Yamatomine, Amamioshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. From Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and Radium Hill, Olary, South Australia. In the Emperormine, Vatukoula, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. At Horni Kalna, Czech Republic. From the Mounana mine, Gabon.
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Post by 1dave on May 9, 2024 16:37:54 GMT -5
I would like to join this conversation, but I'm tired.
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Post by 1dave on May 9, 2024 16:11:15 GMT -5
Very Special!
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