Excerpt from 'Creation' magazine Vol. 26 No. 4 2004 'Dead Whales:telling tales' by Michael Oard who has an M.S. in atmospheric science and is a retired meteorologist from the US National Weather Service.
'How did over 300 whales, porpoises, turtles, seals, fish, and land animals such as ground sloths and penguins end up being catastrophically buried together?
'We knew it was a great find,' said paleontologist Leonard Brand about the fossil whales he saw in Peru in 1999, 350 km(200miles) south of Lima, the capital. Eagerly he organized a team of creationist research scientists.
Overall, they found 346 whales within a 1.5-km (370-acre) area, buried in an 80-m (260-ft) thick layer of sedimentary rock called diatomite. This layer is part of the Pisco Formation, which varies in thickness from 200-1,000 m(650-3,300 ft).
Diatomite is sedimentary rock containing a high % of fossil diatoms- small single-celled algae, which commonly live near the ocean surface. The layer of diatomite in Peru has 5 to 10% clay and abundant volcanic ash.
Today, when diatoms die, their silica skeletons accumulate on the ocean floor. One gram (0.035oz) of diatomite may contain up to 400 million skeletons. Diatomite sediment normally accumulates slowly - only a few centimetres per thousand years. Even where the rate is higher, such as in some shallow-water areas, accumulation is still slow. .......
In Peru, the fossilized whales and diatoms were well preserved and the whale skeletons were mostly intact.'
'Remarkably, these rapidly buried fossil whales contradict one of the ruling principles of modern geology, uniformitarianism - i.e. rocks formed slowly in the past similar to what we observe in the present. Interpreted according to that principle the whales were buried over a period of two million years about 10 million years ago. However, the fact that 80 m of sediment buried 346 whales within months or weeks (or less) creates a problem for those who believe in millions of years. Where do they put the time? There is nowhere for it in the rocks.'
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