[net.misc] paluxy footprints

mark (03/31/83)

i see that the paluxy footprints have surfaced on the net.  these are a
number of features in some 100-million-year-old limestone in texas, which
are said by some to be human footprints, existing side-by-side with
dinosaur footprints.
the spring 1983 issue of "the skeptical inquirer" contains an article on the
subject, by steven schafersman, who is described as a geologist and
paleontologist.  he and several others studied the site, and concluded that
the alleged human prints may be accounted for by natural processes such as
erosion or collapse of dinosaur tracks in the mud which formed the rock, 
and by carving by a less-than-expert hand.

			mARK bLOORE
			univ of toronto