The whale is standing on end in the quarry and is being exposed gradually as the diatomite is mined. Another recent find at the Dicalite quarries was the skeleton of a small fur seal or sea lion, one of the few known specimens of the species. Smaller whales have been found, too, as well as fish and birds. On the whole, the discoveries are providing a valuable look at life along the coast of California 10 million years ago. The fossils will be used for public display and research at the Natural History Museum.
Workers find whale in diatomaceous earth quarry.
Nowhere in the above is it mentioned what orientation the sediment had in the quarry. The claim that the Lompoc whale fossil was polystrate is not established here. The geology of the Lompoc region is not mentioned by SciCre-ists using this example. Well, it could be that since the Lompoc region is rife with faults and folding, curious angles to bedding planes are not uncommon. This means that there is further reason to doubt that the present orientation of the whale fossil has any bearing on the question of whether it is polystrate or not.