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Researchers Discover Major Jurassic Fossil Site In Argentina (phys.org)
Paleontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was first discovered. The site, which spans 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometers) in Patagonia, southern Argentina, came to light this week with the publication of a report in the journal Ameghiniana. "No other place in the world contains the same amount and diversity of Jurassic fossils," said geologist Juan Garcia Massini of the Regional Center for Scientific Research and Technology Transfer (CRILAR). The fossils are so well preserved, that researchers say each rock extracted from the site could possibly open the door to a new discovery.
I can't tell if that is sarcasm or facetiousness...
60,000 square kilometers is a huge amount of land to protect from vandalism and ignorant sight see-ers. I just hope they can hide the site in google earth to keep it protected for all of humanity.
First glimpse of the silicified hot spring biota from a new Jurassic chert deposit in the Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina
Without commenting on the OP, why is the nonsense in the parent acceptable anywhere? Ethnic slurs are generally not acceptable under any conditions and in any company. However, it's seemingly acceptable and commonplace to use LGBT slurs in many settings. The word "retard" is also very offensive because there are lots of people with real disorders that make learning difficult. We'll all be much better off as a society when people who feel it's okay to use such offensive slurs are unwelcome. I don't really believe in microaggressions and things like that, but there's no place for things that are blatantly offensive.
Opposing grossly offensive slurs doesn't make someone a "pussy" nor does it merit offensive slurs about one's sexuality. That I find your comments offensive has no bearing on my sexuality or whether I'm a "pussy" or not. There's also an implication in the parent that a gay man is somehow less manly than a straight man. That stereotype is also offensive and needs to go away. I don't consider opposing offensive slurs as being a form of political correctness; it's just common decency that apparently isn't common enough. Insulting the sexuality of others and questioning their manliness says more about your own problems and insecurity than about the person you're insulting. Comments like yours might have been tolerated among juveniles in the past when LGBT rights weren't respected as they are today. Now it simply makes you and insecure bigot. And society will be better off when bigotry like yours is extinguished.
Seems like the appropriate name for it.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Fossils are mineral replacements of bones, either through mineralization or sediment filling in the void opened as the organic material decayed. Most oil by contrast is the result of bacterial action and pressure over even longer time spans and at much higher pressures (think plate subduction).
At least with retards we recognize the birth defect and treat it as such -- rather than try to convince everyone that they're no different than anyone else.
They finally found the RNC headquarters?
"Fossils are mineral replacements of bones, either through mineralization or sediment filling in the void opened as the organic material decayed."
Sometimes. Sometimes not. Wood, leaves, enamel, bone, and especially Calcium Carbonate and Calcium Phosphate shell material can last an impressive amount of time unaltered. Proteins and DNA not so much. But even there the oldest known DNA used to be 15 million years or so from leaves preserved in clay in Idaho. I wouldn't be surprised that someone has found older material since.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Yeah , to hell with people. Money rules!
Only simpletons think it's good to be told what to do by do-gooder busybodies who arrogantly feel they know what's best for everyone.
Like various AC's on this board?
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Is this a reference to US foreign policy?
Dinosaurs don't make oil. Planktonic algae that settles into the sediment at the bottom of oceans and lakes does, once it is sufficiently buried and gets heated up.
Being "popular" material designed for entertainment and marketing and not for presenting the science of the 1930s (let alone anything more recent), this trope remains popular with creationists, and trotting it out is a good sign that someone has been beaten around the head a few times too often with a religious indoctrination book or several.
For the "oil window", look at temperatures in the region of 100-200 centigrade and pressures of 3 to 10 kilobars (about 2-5 km depth depending on a lot of things about your basin). fairly high, but eminently achievable in an intracratonic setting. You don't need subduction to generate hydrocarbons, but a lot of hydrocarbon provinces are in subduction zones. Compare, for example, the transtensional (not subduction, nor intracratonic) oil province of California with the intracratonic and non-subductional Permian Basin of northern Texas (where I think Sinclair Oil had many of their holdings ; of course the Permian Basin pre-dates the dinosaurs, but not the mammal-like reptiles).
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Though the summary and article don't seem to grasp it, the fossil discoveries under discussion are actually "exceptionally well-preserved, in-situ and transported, tri-dimensionally silicified plants, animals and microorganisms," and "also contains vegetative and reproductive structures of fungi, oomycetes, cyanobacteria, algae, testate amoebas, ciliates and numerous remains of unresolved taxonomic affinity."
From that, there is no indication that they found anything larger than a few millimetres.
Now, don't get me wrong - microfossils are incredibly important (I've signed hundreds of thousands of dollars more for job tickets for micropalaeontologists than I have for regular palaeontologists), but I rather doubt there will be a discovery here that will appear in Jurassic Park 7 (or whatever number they're up to now).
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"