From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 00:41:35 EDT
I have spent the past two weeks traveling the Baltic region, collecting some
nice fossils and missing all the biographies of everyone. I will get around
to reading them. I also was able to find something which I had wanted to
find, a geologic map of Iraq which clearly separates the fluvial Quaternary
from the rest of the geology. The map is from the USGS open file report
97-470B. What is shown on the picture on my website is the northern part of
the country along the Euphrates river. The slightly orangish areas are
Tertiary which comes before and is much older than the Quaternary. Clearly
the recent deposits form just a narrow band along the river valley and give
no observational support for the idea of a regional deluge covering
Mesopotamia. The quaternary fluvial includes all sediments which are younger
than 1.8 million years old. The lack of them anywhere except along the
river channel is disproof that Northern Iraq was ever flooded during the
past 1.8 million years. The map can be seen at
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/IraqEuphrates2.jpg
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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