Fossils in Tainan City

If you have the time, the best way to see a city is on foot. Nothing passes you too quickly and you can stop and check out anything that catches your fancy. Sounds are all around, the unusual needs a second look. A bus or car is just moving too fast, no second chances. So in the big city, Tainan, what would be the chances of seeing fossils if you weren't on foot. ZERO! But as a pedestrian with eyes to the ground, no problem. This is from a decorative boulder on the NCKU campus. That wet stuff is spittal. my spittal.

Significant fossils are often found by children, why? Two possible reasons:

1. A Child's eyes are just closer to ground because they are shorter.
2. A Child has few preconceptions, they are open to new possibilites.

This is from a piece of linestone from the Small South Gate. I think it is a horn corral.

This stone was used as a weight for  holding down a tarp at a tea shop. From the smoothness and size you can tell it was retrieved from a river bed and must have been washed out from the Taiwan mountains.  Following the the method of gold prospectors, you might be able to trace it back to the "mother load" somewhere in the mountains.

 Here is a scallop shell in limestone from a wall on DongXiao road, linestone besides being fossiliferous is also a good construction material. I have a feeling the wall will be demolitioned soon and the property developed, Location, location, location, ...

In the public parks there are many such rocks on display. I wonder whether the puzzle they present is understood and the solution appreciated.

Puzzle: Certainly we have black rocks and white rocks but what causes black rocks to be streaked with these white rocks? The Emperor of China, with all his resources and wise men could never make a rock that is black shale with white veins of quartz. What is going on here? Especially with crossed veins of white quartz. All the Emperor's men and wisemen couldn't put a fossil together.

Of course the modern geologist with the concept of deep time has an easy explanation:

1. The shale was laid down as a sedimentary rock.
2. the rock was fractured and submerged below the water table and the quartz precipitated out.
3. the rock was  fractured in a different direction and submerged below the water table and the quartz precipitated out.
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These events happen over millions of years so no problems with fracture events and precipretation timelines. Some biblical nonsense about the world being less than 10 thousand years old is the belief of fools.

Religion can never be an excuse for being stupid.