Re: North Sea find

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

Remarkable but not unique, in 1937 a Pliocene grebe was found at a depth of 
645 m in a California oil well:

Wetmore, A. 1937. A Record of the Fossil Grebe, Colymbus parvus, from the 
Pliocene of California, with Remarks on Other American Fossils of This 
Family. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, series 4, 
23(13):195-201.

Tommy Tyrberg



At 14:52 2006-04-26, brushes2@juno.com wrote:
> Under 2256 M of mud! That means sediment has accumulated at the rate of
> 1.128 X 10-5 M/year. Not counting, of course the depth of the water, this
> drilling process is pretty remarkable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
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