On a scale from zero to George Washington, I give it a 3.

how would you anyways lol

It really depends on how much pressure you put down on it. It doesn’t need to be air tights mine were never air tight because the top was never sealed. You could use plate steel and bolts to hold the container together. It will just take some thinking and experimenting to figure out the best way. Each experiment teaches you something new for the next experiment. So don’t be afraid to fail.

What happens if you put vinegar to speed of decomposing speed dropping the pH

Dusting will not work because the dust will still adhere to the previous layer. There isn’t enough textural difference to allow for a good cleavage. I’ve tried different acids to try to help with lithification, but I never noticed a difference with trying that. Getting as much pressure as you can helps greatly. But with more pressure comes more danger of something breaking and flying off and hitting you. So be carful.

It doesn’t work as well with bones because bones take such a long time to deteriorate. If I had a way to get pressure high enough to dissolve silica I could probably mineralize a bone, but that would take a much more involved set up.

@@lundgrenbronzestudios how much pressure would that be, also wouldn't that require heat?

@@javierhillier4252 not necessarily heat. But heat can be involved. The mineral dissolution state would be defined in a phase diagram or PT diagram. P = pressure T = Temperature. These diagrams tell a minerals stability within a field of pressure and temperature. Each mineral has a different zone of stability. I don’t know what that would be for lime stone off the top of my head though. Good luck in your research!

😆 well I’ve dug up a lot myself and I think that would be a pretty massive effort to make.

I’m aware of mass die offs of fish. None of which were cleaned up by humans and the only remnants that remain are beach sand made of fish vertebrae. And even if what you say is the case the anoxic conditions would have to last essentially permanently otherwise the varved layers would be bioterbated and fish bodied would have been consumed before buried with sediment.

@@lundgrenbronzestudios if the water body is deep enough, the bottom can be pretty close to a permanently anoxic region. The initial eutrophication would deplete the water line close to the surface, preventing other animals from consuming the fish, which in turn could sink and be preserved. Another hypothesis would be the die off to happen close to the mouth of a murky river, which dumps copious amounts of sediment fairly quickly.

@@Pfh3dk a high sediment flux wouldn’t result in varve formations like the green river formation. And at the rate of varve deposits you should be able to see little mounds of sediment covering fish or even fish lying on the bottom from long ago. There are many hypotheticals, but again no place where you can observe it happening.

@@lundgrenbronzestudios Fair points. Though there are a few lakes today with characteristics that can enable varve formation and are deep enough to have anoxic bottoms (thus potentially enabling exceptional fossil formation): Lake Baikal, Russia; Great Salt Lake, USA; Lake Geneva, Switzerland; Lake Pavin, France; Lake Nyos, Cameroon; and potentially many more.

@@Pfh3dk as an undergrad I did research on lake Lake Malawi. It’s a deep varve forming with anoxic bottom. If you were to core the green river formation it would be fairly common to cross section through a fish, no fish were found in the Malawi cores. All that to say, the green river formation is incredibly rare, unique and special.

There is no video of the 14 year old experiment. If I had a KZfaq channel 14 years ago I may have made one but I just made reference to what I did in this video so people could get an idea of the result.

@@lundgrenbronzestudios ok! No problem. I was hoping to see a full video of the digging of the drum barrel. Those synthetic fossils are amazing. Great work!

It would also be a question of where the sediment would come from in such a situation. Fish left behind in pools are not readily buried, but consumed by organisms and rotted away. Its a very interesting formation.

@@lundgrenbronzestudios The rock type implies a long time of being a seabed or seashore. Possibly being eroded by reactive types of water (like rain). I don't know where the pictures of the rock quarry were taken, but I suspect that the geological history of the site was similar to modern day Florida. In Florida, there are massive deposits of calcium carbonate, as the entire state is essentially a shallow reef that surfaced when ocean levels receded. Such a pool that would attract many fish and then dry up repeatedly, leaving layers of calcium rich rock would certainly be found in places like FL, with its seasonally enhanced rains. There are many places like this around the world though. Many other places used to be in the right conditions, but the earth's crust is always moving, ensuring that many more mysteries have been placed while others are currently being made.

@@lundgrenbronzestudios yes! It was because of the flood! the conditions during the flood was 14,000 psi along with dissolved silica and heat, it created the hyprethermal (hydro, pressure, thermal) conditions necessary to silicify organic matter in a matter of hours! You can ask me more on my blog scienceinaminute.blogspot.com or probably best to ask the experts who have actually made fossils and amber at universalmodel.com. love this video this guy, he is so smart and is thinking out of the box all the time and directly questions modern science and their false theories. I'm doing my own fossil experiments and this really helped! Thanks!

@@homeboiz9230 I'm reading the UM and that's what led me to this video.

@@travisjohnston739 That's awesome bro! Where'd you hear about the UM? I found out about it when I was 11 and I got to speak with author and learn tons more and then when I turned 16 last year they welcomed me on the team, they are an awesome bunch!

Oh it was probably $25 in metal, the jack was 40$ at harbor freight and the bag of limestone was about $20. The fish were free.

When I die I want to be fossilized.

Soon. It’s drying now.

Fantastic!

I think it’s time!!

@@het127 I cut it open the other day but still needs a little more drying time.

Ok boomer.

Nah. I’m just about the experiments and the science. No scams.

It would definitely not be worth the effort.

​@@lundgrenbronzestudioshahaha I was thinking the same thing. $20 per small fish for years of time and effort, plus anybody who would pay high prices would know what to look for and not be fooled 😂