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Fossilization has also occured with raindrops [http://www.grisda.org/colorado/images/04-11-12%20---%205b%20Fossil%20Trace%20-%20raindrops%20close.JPG]and other evidence of water action [http://www.grisda.org/colorado/index.htm]. For the preservation of such evidence in soft mud to survive being fossilized, such evidence must be buried rapidly by other material to remove it from the weather, and place it in a condition to allow the original material the trace was left in to harden into rock. The only known agent to allow this to happen is by destructive flooding.
Fossilization has also occured with raindrops [http://www.grisda.org/colorado/images/04-11-12%20---%205b%20Fossil%20Trace%20-%20raindrops%20close.JPG]and other evidence of water action [http://www.grisda.org/colorado/index.htm]. For the preservation of such evidence in soft mud to survive being fossilized, such evidence must be buried rapidly by other material to remove it from the weather, and place it in a condition to allow the original material the trace was left in to harden into rock. The only known agent to allow this to happen is by destructive flooding.
===Coprolites===
Coprolites are essentially fossilized dung, and according to science, the fossilization of coprolites "is dependent on their original organic content, water content, where they were deposited, and method of burial" [http://www.envs.emory.edu/ichnology/Dinocopro.htm], usually at a river or floodplain. Coprolites are trace fossils, and since they contained much organic matter when deposited, they would have been subject to destruction by insects, animals, and the weather almost immediately, as demonstrated by observation today.
===Black Sea theory===
===Black Sea theory===