Glenn:
Thanks for the corrections. I need to probe deeper for an explanation of
the anomalies.
Don
Glenn Morton wrote:
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>>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
>>Behalf Of Don Nield
>>Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 5:05 PM
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>>3. /Salt in sea/. This is largely in equilibrium. Excess salt is removed
>>by deposition in shallow sea beds.
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>Sorry, Don, but one doesn't want to replace one falsehood with another.
>Salt is NOT deposited in the shallow sea beds except under extremely special
>circumstances which occur from time to time in the geologic column, like
>when a restricted basin is partly isolated from the rest of the ocean. This
>happened during Zechstein time in Europe in the Messinian in the
>Mediterranean basin, in the Jurassic in the Gulf of Mexico, but today, this
>is occurring almost no where except maybe Sharks bay Australia which is too
>small to be of any significance.
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>>8. /Erosion of continents/. Valid mountain building processes have been
>>ignored by the YECs.
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>That simply won't work either. While it is true that the YECs have ignored
>mountain building, that isn't the reason the continents still exist above
>the waves. There has not been a mountain building episode--ever--in
>Nebraska yet it is still above the waves and still has Paleozoic sediment on
>it.
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-- Donald A. Nield Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland, NEW ZEALAND ph +64 9 3737599 x87908 fax +64 9 3737468 d.nield@auckland.ac.nz http://www.esc.auckland.ac.nz/People/Staff/Nield/Received on Fri Jun 10 20:03:24 2005
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