Yeah, O.K. I asked for that, didn't I? Maybe next time I will take time
to read the statement before responding...but that would really cramp my
style!
Animals can and do make abundant and long trackways underwater. That makes
it neccessary to demonstrate by independent criteria that the tracks were
made in desert dunes. Brand's work on the Coconino Sandstone, assumed to
be a aeolian deposit by McKee and others, demonstrates clearly (as clearly
as anything can be demonstrated about a completed experiment) that the
trackways and thus the sands were deposited in water of undetermined depth.
Interestingly, since the Coconino was a classic type for aeolian sands,
this also calls into question all of the other supposed aeolian sands of
the Mesozoic, at least those with footprints.
Art
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