Why do fossils of marine organisms that are found on mountains indicate that the rocks have moved?

Answer 1

Shells on mountains are easily explained by uplift of the land. Although this process is slow, it is observed happening today, and it accounts not only for the seashells on mountains but also for the other geological and paleontological features of those mountains. The sea once did cover the areas where the fossils are found, but they were not mountains at the time; they were shallow seas.

A flood cannot explain the presence of marine shells on mountains for the following reasons:
1) Floods erode mountains and deposit their sediments in valleys.
2) In many cases, the fossils are in the same positions as they grow in life, not scattered as if they were redeposited by a flood. This was noted as early as the sixteenth century by Leonardo da Vinci (Gould 1998).
3) Other evidence, such as fossilized tracks and burrows of marine organisms, show that the region was once under the sea. Seashells are not found in sediments that were not formerly covered by sea.

Answer 2

If a fossil of a marine organism is found on a high mountain then logically one of 2 things has occured since the Marine fossil was formed...

1. Either the fossil was formed in a marine environment and the water forming the marine environment has fallen below the level of the mountain...this is highly unlikely as sea levels would never have been as high as present day mountains...

or

2. The fossil was formed in a marine environment and the marine environment has risen up and now forms the mountain.

As mountain formation indicates that some tectonic movement has in fact taken place and the marine fossil was found in that mountain then it is logical to assume that the rock strata where the fossil was found has moved upwards forming the mountain. So assumption number 2 would be the logical statement.

Answer 3

No,although rocks do move via earthquakes,wind and erosion
and water flow,marine fossils found on top of mountains is indicative that the mountain was under water at some distant time.

Answer 4

Marine animals are found in the ocean. Mountains are several hundred to thousand feet above sea level. The sea level has not fallen that far. The logical conclusion is the land has been uplifited. The rocks make up the land, so the rocks too have moved.

Answer 5

its a bit obvious isn't it? If the fossils are of marine animals that means that the rocks must have at some point been under water. Since they're not under water, they must have moved. What moved them? ...