Showing posts with label strange traces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strange traces. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Fossils or what? (2)

Posting my question about the mystery traces from a beach in Pula, on The Fossil forum has been fruitful.
The homescar of a limpet would be a perfect answer for the circles, if the place wasn't so far from the tidal zone. They don't come so high and far away from the water. Only very high waves can reach this place. However, I could imagine a loose limpet being tossed away by some very powerful wave ending on this place. Or maybe somebody has brought a limpet there.
A man made origin, like some sort of stand or support with metal feet is another interesting and plausible answer to the riddle. It could have been from some military installation, because the whole Pula area has been fortified as the main naval harbour (at first built and founded as  österreichische Kriegsmarine oder k. k. Kriegsmarine) for over a century. Many forts are still present.
The spot in the photo marked with yellow question mark looks like a man made artifact.

The photograph below is taken at the same place, a few feet further. Red outline is a possible dinosaur footprint.



 The naval base in Pula in 19th century.





Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Fossils or what?(1)

This is a photograph was taken on the beach near Pula a few years ago. The rocks are of the early Cretaceous age (late Albian), I really can't figure out what has happened here around 100 million years ago. You can see some strange long groove-like traces (?) and five circles in a row in the centre of the photograph. Tip of my shoe is at the bottom of the photo for scale.
There are also some rudist fragments, some large ripple marks and possibly theropod footprints near by (not shown in this photograph).