Oceans Covered Mountains?
I was leading a fossil trip to the White Mountains in California. Part of that trip was among the bristlecone pine forest, the oldest living things on earth. In the Cambrian shale, in which these trees were growing, we found some of the oldest fossils of deep ocean Cambrian trilobites . The specimens above are fairly rare and of poor quality from the White Mountains. I only found one right by the road. The boy and girl with me found one with three trilobites in one slab, in rock at a different place which looked like volcanic rock and nothing else was found. The one below is from Marble Mountains but is a better specimen of the same species of Olenellus . The Bristle cone pines consist of thre, genus , subsection Balfourianae ). All three Marine fossils are commonly found on continental dry land. And this includes all the high mountain ranges in the world. How could this happen since the continents are made up of lighter rocks that are...