how often were the waters out?

Glenn.Morton (XDEGRM@ORYX.COM)
Wed, 14 Jan 98 13:25:03 CDT

The suggestion has been made that the dinos left their tracks at periods when
the land was exposed and the flood waters were elsewhere. Many track sites
show tracks occurring on different but narrowly separated stratigraphic
intervals

Dakota Group near Eldorado Springs Colorado, over 5.6 meters (18 feet)
vertical distance there are 18 different levels with dinosaur tracks.~Martin
Lockley and Adrian Hunt, Dinosaur Tracks, (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1995), p. 196

At Dinosaur Ridge near Denver, the Dakota Group shows dinosaur tracks
on 6 different layers separated by 5 meters (16 feet)~Martin Lockley and
Adrian Hunt, Dinosaur Tracks, (New York: Columbia University Press,
1995), p. 198

Roxborough State Park Colorado has 11 layers of dino tracks over a
vertical distance of 5.6 meters ~Martin Lockley and Adrian Hunt,
Dinosaur Tracks, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), p. 202

The importance of these examples is that the water was out for layer after
layerand only a foot or two of sediment was deposited when the floodwaters
supposedly came in again. The flood was not very deep nor did it
show a lot of turbulence at these time periods. I think a case
could be made that the other intervals also were not very rapidly
deposited.