It's a bone bed out there. Willis joined the team as an Old Testament teacher looking for evidence concerning the biblical flood to share in his classroom. Genesis doesn't tell you all the answers, but it gives you a good framework. Bones range from skull pieces to vertabrae, from ribs over six feet tall to toe bones the size of a dime. The fossil site supplied a wealth of research information for the participants.
Some bones remain identified and have left researchers puzzled.
And those that had been discovered earlier, and left on the earth's surface for the howling winds and sand storms to erode were also carefully packaged and evacuated to SWAU for restoration and preservation. But collecting data from the bones turned out to be more challenging to Chadwick's team than just digging them up. To start the dig, a tractor was brough in to clear away the top 15 feet of the dig site. Dr. Lawrence Turner, SWAU's chief information officer and professor of mathematics and physics, the used a prototype procedure involving Global Positioning System, a satelite-based high precision surveying system, to electronically measure the exact location of each bone. Turner downloaded the data to a computer that displayed the position and gave a virtual image of the boned as if the surrounding soil were removed.