You are full of surprises this month. I aplaud you.
At 07:02 PM 1/6/98 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>This brings to light another interesting anomaly, not related to the
>Baumgartner model, but to the whole question of non-uniformity in the
>fossil record. As Glenn has just pointed out indirectly, 95% of the
>sediments on the ocean floor
>today are Mio-Pliocene. This leaves 5% for the Oligocene, Eocene,
>Paleocene, Cretaceous and Jurassic. I will be interested in whatever
>explanations any of you may have for this, because when I originally heard
>the report at GSA, there was a deafening silence from the captivated
>audience when the author asked for explanations, and he had none to offer
>himself. Looks to me like massive continental runoff characterized the
>Mio-Pliocene worldwide. That is something Baumgartner and others should
>not ignore in their modeling.
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> Plio Mio Oligo Eocene Paleocene Cretaceous Jurassic
Do you have a reference to the literature? I NEED to see this paper.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm