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Details Relating to the Lake Drowning Theory
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Abundant Food. Lack of winter sunlight inside the Arctic Circle would choke off the mammoth’s food supply each winter, even if temperatures were warm or the mammoth was “adapted” to the cold.
13. Warm Climate. Vegetation in the digestive tracts of frozen mammoths shows that they died in a mild climate during the late summer or early fall when frozen lakes or rivers would not exist. Many weeks of freezing temperatures are needed to form ice thick enough for a large, hoofed animal to venture far enough from shore to drown.
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Yedomas and Loess, Multi-Continental, Frozen Muck, Upright. The lake drowning theory does not explain why mammoths, yedomas, and loess are related, why these peculiar events occurred over such wide areas on three continents, where so much muck originated, why muck has sometimes buried forests, why yedomas contain so much carbon, or why so many mammoth bodies and skeletons were found upright.
15. Rock Ice. The ice near several carcasses was not lake or river ice. It was Type 3 ice, not Type 1 ice.
16. Sudden Freezing, -150°F. Yes, burial in peat bogs can retard bacterial decay and preserve bodies for thousands of years. However, only a rapid and extreme temperature drop can stop the destructive activity of enzymes and stomach acids.
17. Dirty Lungs. Drowning in a lake would not force gravel into Dima’s lungs. Nor would silt, clay, and gravel work their way into Dima’s intestines after a sudden drowning.
18. Animal Mixes. If mammoths occasionally fell through ice on an arctic lake, why are the bones of so many temperate animals found together? Why do prey lie near their predators? Large, hoofed animals seldom venture out on frozen lakes.
19. Vertical Compression. Falling into a lake would not produce the vertical compression found in Dima and Berezovka.