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Hello! I'm going to Drumheller for 3 full days of hiking. Not exactly fossil hunting bc I know I can't keep anything not being from Alberta. But, I REALLY want to see the K-Pg boundary somewhere and maybe fill an airplane scotch bottle with some of it. Any tips where to find it somewhere within a few hours of there? I saw the notice not to be specific, but the only even general tip I could find was a post on this board about hiking up to it somewhere north of Tolman Bridge. Idk if that's walking distance from there, or a few hour canoe ride up from there. Thanks! PS if anybody has seen it near there, a tip on what to look for would be awesome. I've read it's usually a thin layer between coal layers.
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I know the cretaceous period ended 65-66 million years ago but when exactly did it end? Did it end as soon as the meteor touched the Earth's surface? As soon as all dinosaurs went extinct? After a certain amount of species went extinct? There may not be a definitive answer but if it was up to you where would you decide where the end of the cretaceous meets the beginning of the paleogene?
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Thought this fit better here than general fossil discussion but I thought it would be fun if we talked about what it was like on that day 66 million years ago. You know it has to be a great day. What was the weather like? The day of the year? The time of day? What the dinos were doing? What on Earth was going on?
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I recently came across the young earth theory (the theory that earth is 10.000 years old and dinosaurs coexisted with humans and traveled with Noah and his ark) and of course i thought it was unfeasible but one common argument they keep having is why are we finding soft tissues, proteins and other biochemicals in fossils like triceratops, t-rex and other dinosaur bones of course that doesn't mean DNA BUT they shouldn't have been preserved because such biochemicals don't get preserved after so much time. Another one is that some old fossils are still close to the surface when they should be buried really deep. So what are your thoughts on these arguments, in my opinion this theory is ridiculous but i'd love to learn the answers. Thanks (PS sorry for asking that many questions these days its just that im new to the forum and have lots of questions)
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What were the largest animals to survive the KT extinction?
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From the album: Invertebrates and plants(& misc.)
Debris, including micro glass "beads" from melted earth ejected into the air, from the KT boundary burn layer. Garfield county, Montana, Hell Creek formation. Late cretaceous (duh) *i added "misc." to this album because this didn't fit anywhere, and I thought it was really cool and should definitely be included somewhere. **There could even be vaporized dinosaur material as part of the glass and melted debris included. There definitely was plenty of it, but I guess realistically, unless it became evenly spread into the atmosphere and airborne debris, this is too small an amount of ejecta, and by percentage such a minuscule amount of vaporized dino, so sadly there probably isn't any.