The Coal Measures Strata are divided into 1 super-sequence and 3 sequences on the basis of paleostructure surface,widespread overlap unconformability,coal seam,and channel lag deposit.
According to Edwards, the inspiration for this piece came from nature, when he was sitting alone in the dry bed of a creek, overshadowed by the leaves of palm trees, listening to the birds and insects.
As fish-eaters, this walking monstrosity would need to reside near coastlines or riverbeds so it could spend its days fishing in the water, similar to Pakicetus who ate fish as well as small land animals.
Well, the italian word that he applied to them was " canali" , that word, translated to english should have been translated as " channels" , but instead it got mistranslated as " canals" .
So absolutely incredible, this started as just a couple of twigs across the stream bed and as you can see now, you know, we've got almost a meter difference in height between the water upstream and the water downstream.
The yellow river remained in its bed in deference to Yu the Great, only overflowing afterwards to a certain point on either side to help instead of harm farmers by spreading fertile silt.
So we moved our whole lives down here for this area in these riverbeds and they've all been completely destroyed and rearranged, so it's extremely emotional on a lot of different levels.