Good Morning,
We have started this blog to assist us with Identification of this Imprint. Thank you to Chris on CBC Daybreak for airing the story this morning. We will continue to keep up to date on Research to those that are interested in what kind of Imprint this is or how it was formed. We would also like to know if others have found simular prints in rocks in the Peace River country. Your comments are welcome
Earlene Bitterman
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Good Morning Way up North,
Thanks for your comments. No we have not went out and tried to make the Identical print in sand, good Idea though. There was a comment on a forum earlier this summer in which their family was testing the sand theory, with their kids out on the beach. I also agree that the raise surface as well as other Identifying features such as the raised ridges under the toes, are curious. If it was made by hydrology then I would love a explanation on how it was formed by water.
The comments that we recieved from Richard McCrea Paleontologist in Tumbler Ridge in quotes, “look like voids created by the erosion or dissolution of a softer or more soluble substance or mineral within the rock.” In my Internet research it had to be covered up Quickly to preserve such a imprint such as a cataclysmic event for example volcano or mud flow. Search Ichnology (the study of Prints)
Leads me to believe it was perhaps formed by something, and a softer material was eroded later, that is my theory. Hopefully we can get closer to identify the processess in the next month and locate Mr. Richard McCrea for a physical examination and formal identification.
Thanks! E.Bitterman
By: E.Bitterman on October 15, 2009
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