Re: Green River varves

Bill Payne (bpayne@voyageronline.net)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 22:22:35 -0600

Tue, 06 Jan 1998 23:02:15 -0600 Glenn Morton wrote:

> Alkaline waters, I am told, can preserve things quite effectively. The fact
> that there are huge flamingo nests there combined with the fact that in
> Africa Flamingos live in the alkaline lakes of the rift valley, makes a
> convincing explanation.

OK for flamingo nests which rest on the bottom anyway, but you didn't
refer to fish which _float_ when dead. Do the bottoms of the alkaline
lakes of the rift valley contain varved sediments with fossil (or
proto-fossil) fish buried in the sediments?

You have not answered this YEC argument for catastrophic deposition.

Bill Payne