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==Implications== | ==Implications== | ||
The Pisco formation is a amazing site. The rapid burial of the whales and their baleen depict a story of | The Pisco formation is a amazing site. The rapid burial of the whales and preservation of their baleen depict a story of whales perishing in a diatom bloom in the late flood period. However, there is more to be drawn from the fossil site. | ||
===Mixed environment=== | ===Mixed environment=== | ||
Though the Flood would produce a general pattern in the fossil record | Though the Flood would produce a general pattern in the fossil record due to [[fossil sorting]] (e.g. hydrological sorting and ecological zonation). However exceptions are bound to occur. Whales are not the only creatures found at the Pisco formation. The others strangely include a few [[sloths]] and some [[penguins]]. | ||
===The chalk "problem"=== | ===The chalk "problem"=== | ||
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