>I didn't mean to imply that there were no vast sediments today, but I
>wondered what you thought about such deposits as the Shinarump
>Clonglomerate over such a wide area, not in a linear band like a riverbed
>or a shoreline, hundreds of miles across. Conditions today are not
>depositing anything like that. (You wouldn't call the Antarctic glacial
>conglomerates similar, would you?)
I have never studied the Shinarump so maybe I better dig into the books. I
would make the comment that the Antarctic glacial deposits are different
from the Shinarump as I understand it, but surrounding Antarctica is a
region of conglomerate deposition.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
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