Hi Glenn,
Our schedules left us with some loose ends on this topic, if you care to
continue for a bit longer.
On Sun, 26 May 2002 08:50:25 -0700 "Glenn Morton"
<glenn.morton@btinternet.com> writes:
> As to the above, statement, All I see is that you actually made my
> case for me about the Okefenokee being capable of replicating the
features
> you describe. I fail to see how you miss it.
Coming from one who rails at YECs for ignoring empirical data, that is an
incredible statement. It seems to me that you have refused to engage the
data. Again, I may be wrong in my assessment of the meaning of this
data, but to date no one has been able to explain where I am wrong.
Glenn, please compare the drawing of a paleoswamp at
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/pub/lop.pdf with the photos of the
chunk of coal you posted at
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/CoalClose-up4.jpg
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/CoalClose-up1.jpg This chuck of
coal shows horizontal (planar) structure, which in outcrop may extend for
feet, yards, and even miles. Forget, for the time being, the lack of
vertical trunks and roots in my photos; just concentrate on the planar
structure in the coal and explain how you can get a plane from the very
irregular topography found in a paleoswamp such as the one referenced
above.
Compression by 3 to 10 times to get coal from peat WILL NOT flatten out
the irregularities in the bottom profile of a swamp. How do you explain
the flat structure in coal such as the chunk in the photos?
Incidentally, we have a summer intern who graduated from Furman in
geology, and is working on an engineering degree from Colorado School of
Mines. He saw the rocks in my office and asked about them. I showed him
the same samples for which you have photos, and explained in about ten
minutes some of the discrepansies I see, and he was saying, "Yeah, I see
what you are talking about." So I'm not the only one to see these
things, and how they contradict the swamp model.
Bill
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