Scientists Stunned by Fossils Found at the Peak of Mount Everest, Here’s Why!
The Daily Galaxy••science
Key Points:
- Viral videos showing marine fossils being collected from mountain summits have sparked confusion and led some to claim they prove the biblical “great flood,” but scientific explanations are more straightforward.
- Marine fossils found at high altitudes are preserved in sedimentary rocks, indicating that these areas were once underwater oceans before geological changes occurred.
- Plate tectonics explains the presence of marine fossils on mountains like the Himalayas, where the collision of tectonic plates uplifted ocean floor sediments to extreme elevations over millions of years.
- Historical attempts to explain marine fossils in mountains often involved religious interpretations, but early thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci proposed geological processes that hinted at Earth’s dynamic surface changes.
- Modern geology confirms that these fossils are evidence of Earth’s shifting
