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Gunter wrote: One of the footprints, close to a metre long and 22cm deep,................This preservation gives a graphic picture of the tremendous forces generated as each foot of this giant dinosaur impacted with the ground (calculated at about 27, 000 pounds per square foot).Interesting. If we make a crude assumption that the average diameter of the foot is about 0.8 meter and that it is roughly circular, then the area of the foot is about 5.4 sq.ft. and the load each foot is bearing during impact is about 146,000 pounds or 73 tons. Wow. |