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By BILL SMITH
UNC News Bureau
One of the town's oldest,
most cherished myths that
Chapel Hill was once on the
coast of a Trassic sea has
been kicked in the head.
The beautiful theory was
murdered by a brutal gang of
geological facts collected by
Dr. Daniel Textoris, a geo
logy professor.
The pseudo - sea took its
name from the Triassic per
iod of geological time. Geolo
gists estimate the period
ended some 180 million years
ago.
Had it remained unpubli
cized except by word of
mouth, the myth would have
been safe.
Unfortunately for true be
lievers it got nationwide pub
licity in print ,in the form of
Frances Gray v Patton's story
about Chapel Hill in the Aug
ust issue of Holiday maga
zine. Mrs. Patton wrote: ". . .
Chapel Hill occupies a ridge
or small plateau that was
once a rocky promontory
overhanging an arm of the
great Triassic sea. (This
shard of lore is precious to
devout Chapel Hillians, who
like to reflect upon the im
memorial distinction of their
eminence and think it a shame
that the waters were ever al
lowed to recede.)"
T AIN'T SO
Tain't so, says Dr. Textoris.
The waters of the Triassic
sea could not recede from
from Chapel Hill because they
were never here in the first
place.
In a letter to the editors of
Holiday, Dr. Textoris said
"the presence of coal, silici
fied trees, branchiopods, ter
restrial fossil vertebrates. . .
and lack of any marine fos
sils are a few of the proofs of
fered." When these multisyllable
words are boiled down, they
mean the geological activity
which went on in Chapel Hill's
Triassic basin was caused by
fresh water: streams, lakes
and rivers, not by a sea.
Later, talking about the let
ter, Dr. Textoris fleshed his
bare-boned facts.
"North Carolina was cov
ered by a sea," he said, "but
is was 300 million years ago,
during the Paleozoic era,
when much of the ' N o r t h
American continent was v also
covered."
The Triassic period occured
much later, a mere 190 mil-
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lion years ago.
Portions of Eastern N. C.
were flooded again during the
Cretaceous period, about 70
million years later. This in
undation did not reach Chapel
Hill.
Triassic basins span the
length of North America's
east coast, and simtfar struc
tures are found in the west
ern U. S. , Dr. Textoris said.
The N. C. basin was caused .
by a fault or a slippage in
the earth's crust. It caused a
15 mile-wide area just west of
the fault to sink about 10,000
feet.
The sinkage was gradual,
Dr. Textoris pointed out. It
took place over many mil
lions, of years, and geological
forces such as eosion were
at work filling the basin at
the dame time it was being
formed.
Water action in all the
basins was caused by fresh
water.
"Also, geologists have found
lake limestones and brancho
pods (fossilized animals which
only lived in fresh water) in
the Chapel Hill Triassic Ba-
sin.
FRESH WATER
Dr. Textoris explained that
the petrified trees and coal
he mentioned in his letter are
the work of fresh water.
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"The trees probably fell in
tc rivers or were torn from
the place where they stood
by floods," he said. "When
they finally sank or ran
aground the rivers covered
them with sediment and
through the years they silici
fied, or became petrified."
Coal deplsits, one of which
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Finally, vertebrate land fos
sils have been found in the ba
sins, while marine fossils have
not.
Dr. Textoris felt the mis
taken belief that Triassic ba
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sins were covered by seas
probably got its start from an
incorrectly identified fossil.
The fossil was unearthed in
one of the New England ba
sins and was first identified
as a bone from a marine fish.
This led geologists to believe
all the basins along the east
ern coast had been covered
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dinosaur which could only
live on land.
By that time, however, the
myth of the Triassic sea had
become firmly entrenched.
Mrs. Patton's article will bear
witness to that.
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