Re: Footprints

[jdharris@csn.net (Jerry D. Harris)]

> RE the Human/Dinosaur footprints:

>The later "human" prints were not all that human looking but were dumbbell
>shaped or thereabouts - which obviously meant human to creationists
>Two researchers - one a local school teacher in Texas - then followed a
>human track and - surprise - it turned into a theropod trackway as
>the lithology changed. Seems the difference in substrate hardness
>caused only the base of the foot to imprint and not the toes, until
>a different area was stepped in and the toes popped in. It's a nice study
>and I'll try and dig up my copy of the refs and remember who did it.

        Two very interesting articles on creationists and ichnites are:

Hastings, R.J. (1987).  "New Observations on Paluxy Tracks Confirm Their
Dinosaurian Origin" _Journal of
        Geological Education_ 35:  4-15.

Monroe, J.S. (1987).  "Creationism, Human Footprints, and Flood Geology"
_Journal of Geological
        Education_ 35:  93-103.

        The first one is by a Texas schoolteacher; the second is a great
reference to "human" tracks, not only the ones in the Cretaceous of Texas,
but contended prints by creationists in Paleozoic and Cenozoic rocks around
the US as well.

>I don;t know of the ICR studying it but would love the reference.
>I'll try and prod Jim Farlow, who knows that area as well as anyone,
>to give us the full poop.

        I don't think that the ICR is currently studying tracks on the
public lands, but I do know for certain that they have several tracksites
on private land nearby.


Jerry D. Harris
Denver Museum of Natural History
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Denver, CO  80205
(303) 370-6403
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to her daugher:

"See there?  That's the camel-dinosaur, and
the horse-dinosaur, and the elephant-dinosaur..."

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