Re: Whimpy Roots

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Payne" <bpayne15@juno.com>
To: <glennmorton@entouch.net>
Cc: <ksharman@pris.bc.ca>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Whimpy Roots

Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks, Glenn. Kevin had said that a floating mat of vegetative debris
> would disperse. I forgot that these mats are alive and the roots would
> intertwine to lock the mat together where it could support people and
> dinosaurs.
If you are proposing to rip up pre-existing mats that are held together with
intertwined roots, then we are back to you trying to explain how to get
these mats thick enough to account for thick coal seams when they drop their
vegetation. Eight meters of J seam would take an 80 meter thick mat. This
is just for ONE of the many coal seams found in the geological record.
Pre-Flood peat accumulation rates, please? You have waffled out of this
before, by saying that loose veg material was amalgamated into thick mats by
being pushed against a shoreline. Now you want the mats bound together by
roots.
>
> That's amazing, Glenn, you and I have the same explanation for partings.
> And thanks again - Kevin had hammered me when I said tonsteins were the
> result of turbidity flows; I like your explanation that they filtered
> down through the mats.
You want sediments to filter through mats that are 10's of meters thick (or
hundreds of meters thick for thicker seams) fast enough to deposit all the
partings found in all the world's coal seams in a Flood timeframe. Yeah,
right.

Also, here are links to the references about tephras I quoted in my last
post, which didn't seem to come out right.

www.rsnz.govt.nz/publish/jrsnz/2002/025.pdf

Revista geol?ica de Chile - Holocene peat and lake sediment ...

Kevin
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Received on Wed Mar 10 01:18:26 2004