The Perfect Place to Find Dinosaur Bones

So Ty, one of the places that you really want to find is you want to find a channel deposit. How do you tell when you're in a channel deposit? Well, channel deposits out here in the Hell Creek, one of the best places to find stuff because it was because it buried up the fossils quickly and they preserve them. So if you look at an area like this, you can see this was a stream bed at some point. You can see all these little swirls. This would have been all different little sand bars as the braided streams moving back and forth and eroding and redepositing and eroding and redepositing. You can see where I just do. I didn't even notice there's a a stick, petrified stick going in the wall right there. You can see that white. So, that would have been a piece of wood that got buried up right there. So, but what happens is at some point things changed. There was a flash flood. There was a big storm and a storm surge came down the river. something happened and at that time it went from nice smooth clean sand to heavier pebbles and a lot more deposition faster. You know how we have flash flooding when all you know everything the kitchen sink the chairs cars tires inner tubes everything goes into that stream. The same thing happened back then only it's dinosaurs and teeth and wood and all kinds of cool stuff. But also because of that fastoving stream and it's moving all that material, it buries stuff up really deep and in an oxygen-free environment, which is what you need in order to find dinosaurs. So here's some of the stuff that we can find. There's a little bone pieces whether or not. Yeah. Yeah. This little piece of a tenon, oified tenon. That one's actually got, if I got a little bite mark right there. It's got a little predation mark right there. Oh, no way you can see that. That's so cool. Look at that right there. Little serrated bite mark on that one. That's nuts. Dinosaur predators were scavenging on these fossils in these bones. Then all of a sudden a flash flood comes in and it buries it all in these channel deposits