Re: uniformitarianism

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 20:50:36 -0600

At 09:39 AM 2/3/98 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>At 06:17 AM 2/3/98 -0600, Glenn wrote:
>There ARE frameworks found in the
>>fossil record and I will give you some more examples. Robert H. Dott Jr.,
>>and Roger L. Batten, Evolution of the Earth, 1971 p. 605 fig AII.5 shows a
>>colonial devonian Hexagonaria coral.(this same picture is found on p 310 of
>>their 1988 edition) On p. 607 Figure AII.7 shows a framework tabulate coral
>>colony. (This same picture is found in their 1988 edition on page 343)
>
>
>But Glenn, see Cook, H.E., P. N. McDaniel, E. W .Mountjoy and L. C. Pray. 1972
>Allochthonous carbonate debris flows at Devonian bank ('reef") margins,
>Alberta, Canada. Bull Can Pet Geol 20:439-497. In this paper and in
>others by the same authors, they repeatedly place what clearly are reefs in
>the geological sense into the debris flow categories where I think they
>belong in terms of their sed characteristics and placement. All of the
>features you cite in favor of reefs are present in these mounds. Yet they
>are misrepresented as such, according to Cook.

But Art, go look at my pictures!

glenn

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