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Re: Estimate of Recoverable Dino Diversity



I recall a talk at last year's DPP symposium by Ian Campbell in which
he predicted that the increasing sediment supply from the growing Red
Deer River badlands will one day overwhelm the transport capacity of
the river.  The result would be increased residence time of sediment,
and decreased fossil yeild as the valleys fill faster than they can be
emptied.  "Sediment gridlock", he called it.
Moral of the story: get out there while the pickings are still good!

--
Jordan Mallon

MSc Student - Vertebrate Palaeontology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary
3330 Hospital Dr. NW
Calgary, AB CANADA T2N 4N1


On 9/4/06, Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote:
Now is a good time to be a paleontologist, apparently:

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060904_unknown_dinos.html

But aren't new fossils continuously being brought to the surface?
What's "unrecoverable" now might become recoverable, given enough time.

--
Nicholas J. Pharris, Ph. D.
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
    --Edwin H. Land



--
Jordan Mallon

MSc Student - Palaeoecology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
University of Calgary
3330 Hospital Dr. NW
Calgary, AB CANADA T2N 4N1