Update on Tuba City Dinosaur Tracks

     Update on the article: My Corrections to My Research on Dinosaur Tracks.

 

    Picture below is an iron concretion nodule. These are NOT dinosaur dung, or a dinosaur eggs like some people have claimed. And the long treelike concretions with roots are not plants. They are mineralization. They produce many shapes some resembling tracks of dinosaurs, humans, and mammals when they beak loose from the bedrock by erosion. But they are never in trackways that have identical impressions, and they are not in flat track layers. These overlay the track layer showing the tracks are in a soft mud temporarily exposed to the surface for a few minutes or hours before the next tidal impact. 

    

    And this is NOT a dinosaur track, let alone a T-rex. T-rex is not found in this strata. Only Dilophosaur with footprints the size of a man 12 inches long. Also as paleontologist Dr. Leonard Brands told me only a trackway can confirm it is a genuine track. Fossil tracks are called a trace fossils. They are interesting because they show an organism that is alive not a dead body fossil.  

    I was the senior paleontological researcher for the Creation Research Society, and writer researching putative human tracks on Early  Jurassic sandstone mounds containing concretions resembling human trackways. 

    In a nearby area next to the mounds. I found an eroded flat layer, where I found real Dilophosaur dinosaur trackways.  

     Now this is interesting. See the flat layer in this picture. This shows a sudden change in planer  deposition of sediment during a huge flood of water and sediment deposited by rapidly moving water. Mudcracks and ripples are associated with the dinosaur track layer. These were all dead flat like all fossiliferous strata worldwide. Later after the flood deposition, down cutting by the receding flood formed the Moenkopi wash continued for thousands of years after that. The Moenkopi Formation was named from this wash. The tracks are in the Kayenta Formation above it. That same layer is found around Meteor Crater. It is the same Permian layer called Coconino in the Grand Canyon area. It is known for its crossbedding as currents went back and forth. As for the dinosaur tracks, they were protected by colorful rhyolitic volcanic ash, formed by explosive eruptions between flood impacts, containing silicon which causes petrification in bones and wood from hot ground water.