>Some of the folks in the K/T (end Cretaceous) debate certainly don't fit
>this mold-they see catastrophes everywhere. If the earth is quite old, a
>lot of catastrophes have probably happened. On a fine temporal scale, most
>sediment is deposited by small "catastrophes"-local storms, floods, etc.
I stand corrected, but they are generally regarded as crackpots by their
peers. At least that is the opinion I heard repeated on numerous occasions
at the Paleogeography, etc. conference at Penn State a few years when that
was the subject of the conference.
Art
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