>I am also interested in raindrop patterns, leaf priints and tracks. Have
>any of those been reported as fossilized recently?
If I had thought a little longer last night I could have answered the
question about raindrop impressions. There are modern rain drop impressions
being preserved in the geological column being laid down today. Raindrop
impressions are only preserved after a light rain. Heavy rain destroys them
again. Here is what Reinecke and Singh state:
"Natural levee sediments of the gomti River, India, show sand layers
overlaid by thick mud layers. Sand layers show mainly small-ripple
crossbedding and sometimes horizontal bedding. Mud layers are usually
finely laminated. Within the natural levee deposits of the Gomti River,
channels filled with silty muddly sediemnts are present, where there is also
concentration of plant debris, molluscs, etc. Locally, in small depressions
within the natural levee, wave ripples, mud cracks, and rain drop imprints
are developed." H. E. Reineck and I. B. Singh, Depositional Sedimentary
Environments, (New York: Springer Verlag, 1980), p. 291
Alluval fan deposits in California also show rain drop imprints (ibid. p. 301)
So, fossilization, leaf preservation and raindrop imprints are all being
deposited and preserved today without the benefit of a global flood.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
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