Why are dinosaur fossels and footprints found so close to the surface?

Question

We know that even 2000 year old Roman ruins in Britain, mosaic tiles etc, are now about 2 metres below the surface. Remains of creatures that died 65 million years ago should be MUCH MUCH deeper...

Answer 1

Why are you asking questions when you clearly are not open to the answers? I'll tell you why, because you're closed-minded and ignorant. Anything that contradicts your world view is wrong in your eyes, no matter how valid the evidence.

For your information, "2 metres down" is a totally meaningless measurement unless you set it in a context. If you're at the bottom of a ravine which is 1000 feet below sea level, digging down a further two metres could mean exposing rocks that are many millions of years old. If I dig two metres in the back of my garden at sea level, I may be digging down a year's worth of soil

And by the way, if you can't accept erosion as a fact of nature, I suggest you invest in some geology or environmental sciences course. Or perhaps put your money where you mouth is and build a home at the edge of a river bank, or the sea.

Answer 2

So you've decided there is some kind of worldwide mechanism that deposits 1 meter of debris every 1000 years.  And this stuff, whatever it is, is stable to erosion.  And this debris deposition process has been going on at least since the dinosaurs went extinct.  Fascinating.

Answer 3

One word: erosion

***Well if you cannot accept erosion, then you will have to accept two things: erosion and uplift due to a) seismic processes and b) isostatic rebound.

A lot of erosion can happen in 65 million years, you know. Also, there could be periods of non-deposition that result in thinner sediment deposits.

Answer 4

They were at one time, then erosion makes them available to us.

We find fossils at the surface because it is too expensive to look further down unless we are digging for some other reason - like a quarry.   Fossils away from man made holes are found where rain has eroded a canyon or gully or faulting has uplifted part of the landscape.

  A fossile maybe found here near the surface and the same rock layer is several hundred feet down a couple of miles away.

Answer 5

Why such a closed mind?

The grand canyon is the largest hole in the Earths surface and was made purely by erosion!!

The main sites for dinosaur fossils in the Us are in areas of high erosion!

The dinosaur fossils in the UK are found around the Isle of Wight through coastal erosion or in the quarries.

You are not going to understand much about this if you discount anything out of hand!!