Re: Carbonate deposition (formerly oil, etc.)

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Don Winterstein" <dfwinterstein@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:39:05 -0800

> If you limit your system to a finite quantity of seawater in a
>container that doesn't interact with seawater, then the number of
>organisms would be limited by the amount of CaCO3 already dissolved in
>the seawater inside your container. Something like that is what I
>understood to be Glenn's original model when he said, "Today we have
>huge areas of the sea floor which are limestone, but the ocean waters
>can only hold tiny amounts. That is the limitation on the growth of
>calcium based organisms."

I want to clarify something, at least it was my intention in that post to head Bill off at the pass by pointing out that you couldn't have a continual bloom to rapidly create the chalk beds. The fact is that you can deplete a local area of sea water in the ingredients for making skeletons and if you do, it takes time to replenish the oceanic waters.

The young-earthers/global flood types (Bill is there some of the time and not there some of the time as I understand his position) want everything sped up and in global systems, that is simply impossible. What ever is the most rare nutrient will become the limiting factor in bloom size and frequency.
Received on Thu Nov 27 10:04:48 2003