[Ansteorra] Elfsea

[Chris Baran]

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Man!  You beat me to it!  A very good and accurate description..



Sir Romanius
>From: Sean Gulick
>Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
>To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Elfsea
>Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:40:47 +0100
>
>Putting on my geologist's hat for a moment:
>
>The reason for the shells and for the prevalence of limestone in the DFW area
>is that it was once beneath an ocean .. of a sort. Around 65 mya there was a
>singular sea that stretched north-south covering the entire center of what is
>now the United States. From east to west it stretched from the Rocky
Mountains
>across the Mississippi River Valley to the Valley and Range province of the
>Appalachian Mountains. This sea was known as the Cretaceous Intercontinental
>Seaway and while covering huge amounts of land it was frequently never more
>than 6 feet deep. As you can imagine as giant shallow sea housed massive
>amounts of aquatic and amphibious life. This life has left its record as
>massive Limestone deposits and the hard parts of organisms such as shells
>throughout the midwest and northern Texas.
>
>We now return you to your regularly scheduled medieval discussion group...
>
>In service and for scholarship,
>Gideon
>
>Rhonda Hays wrote:
>
> > Some time ago, there was a discussion on our local list about traditions.
I
> > recall from that one of the reasons why Elfsea is so named is because Fort
> > Worth some of the surrounding areas of Tarrant county sit on what was once
> > under water. Fossil Creek is an example of what you can dig up around
here.
> > We live in NE Parker County, next to Tarrant and have a "drop off" which
> > runs the length of our six acres. We have found all sorts of shells, from
> > the small ones to some rather large (6" wide") ones, clearly all from
under
> > the water.
>
>--
>'Honor the past, live the present, create the future'
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>
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>University of Texas
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