The Whale Fossil in Diatomite

• Main Author: Andrew A. Snelling
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Fossilized Whale; Miguelita Mine Fossilization; Inclined Strata; Fish Fossils; Diatomite Deposition; baleen whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.375.7848; http://www.icr.org/i/pdf/technical/The-Whale-Fossil-in-Diatomite-Lompoc-California.pdf

An on-site investigation at Lompoc, California, has established that the fossilized baleen whale found there in diatomite was not buried while “standing on its tail, ” but is tilted because the enclosing diatomite unit is tilted. However, current slow-and-gradual uniformitarian models for diatomite deposition and whale fossilization cannot explain this Lompoc whale fossil in diatomite. Only a local catastrophe involving volcanic activity, a post-Flood event within the biblical framework of earth history, is consistent with all the evidence that demonstrates the whale was catastrophically buried in the diatomite.