Re: Green River varves

David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:50:31 -0400

>Question 3: Have any of you evaluated any of the YEC explanations for
>the GR varves? Or the YEC explanations for coral reefs? If so, how good
>are they?
Duane Gish, in a debate on campus here, claimed that ICR scientists had
examined the Permian Glass Mountain reefs of Texas and concluded that they
weren't reefs. Thus, the YEC explanation for fossil reefs seems to be
denial. There are good Pleistocene fossil reefs throughout the tropics; I
have also seen Paleocene and Pliocene reefs here in the southeastern U.S.,
and Oligocene and Miocene coral reefs are also reported.

David Campbell

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