Re: Green River varves

David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:47:47 -0400

>I think it is unfair to equate something Duane Gish claimed with "The YEC
>explanation". Even if it were true that the two were the same, the basis
>should not be that Gish said it.
Good point. I erred! Thanks for the correction! It should be "a", not
"the".

>Also, unless soemthing has changed drastically, neither Gish nor any of his
>ICR cohorts could have examined the Glass Mountain "reef", since it has
>been off limits even to geologists for years.

Both Gish and the non-YEC debater conveyed the impression that it was a
coral reef, when it's primarily sponges, so the closeness of examination is
questionable. It does not match modern coral reefs in being a large,
wave-resistant structure- Mesozoic reefs first achieved this.