Florissant Fossil Beds

Fossils from trees to wasps indicate rapid burial. Can redwoods pick up and move 1300 miles west when climates change? Massive trees broken off at the stumps point to a cataclysmic event that buried life-forms in hundreds of layers of silt and mud. Science has observed this very event on a small scale at Spirit Lake in the Mt. St. Helen's post-eruption activity.

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• Mt. St. Helens eruption
• Sam Pitrone
• Tim Swanson
• creation
• redwoods
• fossils
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[ministryencourager]

Thanks for the P.S. I was inferring the millions of trees that were taken off at the base by the eruption. I know it is a little boring. :) BTW, Florissant is in CO a east of Buena Vista. It is probably about 8 hours from four corners. When you are in four corners, you really should go to Mesa Verde.

[robwiley01]

all our philosophies end with our last breath of how many millions or billions or whatever it changed to this week.

Thank God!

[michaelson88]

potassium argon is the dating method that goes back that far, and there are others.

[lawilson200]

I have visited the Four Corners Area many times, including Mesa Verde. Besides my normal passion for geology, I have long been interested with the Ancient Pueblo People and 8 hours is not much when I am having fun.

Yes, I knew what your were referring. I am very familiar with the YEC claims on the eruption, including the work of Harold Coffin and the work is completely bogus.

Sessional forests are common in areas of regular volcanism, subject to frequent lahars and tephra falls.

[lawilson200]

Not very interesting, but since I am planning my vacation to the Four Corners area, I think I will add Florissant NM to my list of places to visit.

PS-There is some comparison to MSH, but you will not find it in Spirit Lake. The trees at Florissant were buried by lahars from a nearby Eocene age volcano. There are many such deposits at Mount St Helens.

[natalieeemmons]

Nice video.