>However, in case not,
>here are some: oil gushers,
The pressure in oil wells is kept in by capillary pressure not in the way
that Young-earthers calculate it. They use permeability and ignore
capillary pressure.
"Petroleum and natural gas are held at high pressures in underground
reservoirs of porous rock and sand. These fluids are retained in their
reservoirs by relatively impermeable cap rock. However, in many cases the
pressurs are exceedingly high. Calculations based on the measured
permeability of the cap rock show that the oil or gas pressure could not be
maintained for much longer than 10,000 years or perhaps a maximum of
100,000 years (permeability is a measure of how easily fluids under
pressure will seep through the rock.) If these fossil fuel deposits were
actually millions or hundreds of millions of years old, they would long ago
have leaked out through their cap rock to the surface." ~ Robert E. Kofahl,
Handy Dandy Evolution Refuter, (San Diego: Beta Books, 1977), p. 122-123
He cites as source Melvin A. Cook Prehistory and Earth Models, (London: Max
Parish, 1966), p. 254-262 and P. Dickey, et al Science, May 10, 1968, p. 609
who says nothing about rapid leakage.
atmospheric helium,
There are newly discovered lightning that shoots up to the stratosphere and
heats the area up greatly. These occur above thunderstorms. Since heat is
what drives off the helium, these sprites are going to play a role in the
helium balance of the earth. I don't have time tonight to look this up but
if you want, I will.
ocean concentrations,
All the elements are in balance (see my book Foundation Fall and Flood and
my web page on salt.
>ocean sediments, comet decay,
Comets have been found in the outer solar system now in the numbers required.
"Subsequent searches have now found a total of 23 trans-neptunian objects,
12 of them beyond 40 AU. Jewitt and Luu (along with several co-workers)
have continued to be the leaders in the search for Kuiper belt objects,
finding 15 of the 23, including the most distant one, 1992 ES2 at 46.2 AU.
The largest objects are each around 360 km in diameter: 1994 VK8, found by
Alan Fitzsimmons and colleagues, and 1995 DC2, found by Luu and Jewitt.
"The numbers are now sufficient to attempt some inferences on the total
population of Kuiper belt comets. Jewitt and Luu do this in a paper
published earlier this month. Their first seven discoveries came after
searching 1.2 square degrees of the sky with a CCD camera on the 2.2-metre
University of Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea. Based on these numbers,
Jewitt and Luu estimate that there are at least 35,000 Kuiper belt objects
with diameters greater than 100 km between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun,
assuming that orbits in the Kuiper belt are confined to inclinations less
than 80. If each of these objects has a density of 1.0 g cm-3, then their
total mass is around 2 X 10 25 g, or about 0.003 Earth masses. Jewitt and
Luu also noted that past searches by other astronomers limit the diameter
of the largest objects within 50 AU of the Sun to about 600 km. The larger
sizes of Pluto and Charon (with diameters of about 2,400 and 1,200 km,
respectively) may mean that they were accretional 'runaways', bodies that
grew massive enough to begin gobbling up some of the smaller objects in the
Kuiper belt." ~ Paul Weissman, "Bodies on the Brink", Nature, April 27,
1995, p. 763
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