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[doubtingmerle]

Blowing wind is a new one for me. I'm going to look that one up.

As I thought. A great picture of wind erosion illustrates, it is a rare bird.

These tracks were made by an animal that walked on sand.

The tracks were then covered up by other sand, all of which later got buried in the Grand Canyon.
Where did that sand come from that buried the tracks? The answer, my friend, is "blowing in the wind".

See Grand Canyon fossilized tracks reveal reptile ancestors adapted early to land | Live Science.

 

[SkyWriting]

These tracks were made by an animal that walked on sand.

The tracks were then covered up by other sand, all of which later got buried in the Grand Canyon.
Where did that sand come from that buried the tracks? The answer, my friend, is "blowing in the wind".

See Grand Canyon fossilized tracks reveal reptile ancestors adapted early to land | Live Science.

No sand has ever blown anywhere inside the grand canyon.
Tracks in sand - are not covered by wind blown sand - and then the wind blown sand washes away to leave the original tracks in the sand. You couldn't recreate that process if you tried to using two-part epoxy.


Sand is the result of liquid sorting. Prints in the sand are the result of walking on the wet sand. The wind almost never has an effect on the shores of a stream due to the natural windbreaks formed by vegetation and erosion forming windbreaks all along a stream bed.

"Light dew" has never cemented anything. I walk to Lake Michigan from where I live on the western shore with 100's of miles of sandy waterfronts. I've seen a lot of light dew and I've seen miles of footprints in the sand.

We do have wind-blown dunes and 1000's of miles of wet shoreline. Not one fossil site though.