Ray F: As to marine species found high in the mountains. Check out plate tectonics. Take a pencil and figure out what 1/4 inch rise a year can accomplish in a million years.
I come up with 20,000+ feet. So Mount Everest which is still growing could easily have been in the ocean at one time.
It was part of the ocean floor before India (which used to be a separate small continent), and the plates supporting it, collided with southern Asia, pushing the ocean floor there up into a mountain range, thus explaining the fossils of sea life up there.
