Re: Owen's Two-Phase Model of Earth Expansion

From: George (george_at_wtfiswrongwithyou.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 23:45:03 GMT

"Matt" <matt.edwards@utoronto.ca> wrote in message
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> "George" <george@wtfiswrongwithyou.com> wrote in message
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>> "Ralph Nesbitt" <ralph-nesbitt@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
>> > Effectively resulting in a drop in relative sea level. There are to many
>> > other causes of universal sea level variations to rely on universal change
>> > in sea level to support EE IMHO.
>> > Ralph Nesbitt
>> >
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> The decline in sea level shows a gradual drop going over the last 500
> million years at least. Egyed drew this from various sources. He
> used it as evidence for a slow EE model.

Where do you get this information? That is utter crap. Sea level has risen and
fallen hundreds of times (if not thousands) in the last 500 million years, and
has many causes. That is a blanket statement like that demonstrates clear lack
of direct field expereince. Fact: sea level changes are determined in the rock
record by trends in sediment grain sizes and facies changes, trends which only
tell you about regional changes. You can almost never correlate these changes
from region to region. Many have tried. It doesn't work. There are too many
facies changes, to many tectonic movements, too many unconformities to say that
a specific change in sediment properties in China correlate to specific sediment
changes in Wisconsin in the Mississippian, for example. Sometimes, you can for
immediately adjacent basins, but very rarely. You need to learn how to
interpret stratigraphic columns. You should also learn two terms:
transgression, and regression, and two other concepts: coarsing/fining
upwards/downwards.

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