<< The carbonate filling the snails is not a powder, and even the
pictures Petersen shows demonstrate that simple fact. See plate 40 (p.
162)where the snail shell is broken but the carbonate, internal mold of
the snail still supports itself against gravity. Powder can't do that.
Indeed plates 35-40 all show the same phenomenon, a hardened material
inside the shells.
<<I mentioned to you the other day that water carrying dissolved
carbonate can enter the shells and then when the water evaporates, it
leaves behind carbonate. You have yet to do anything except ignore this
point. I would also note that we have observed loess formation today and
if Petersen had done his research he would have known this. "Drapes of
Holocene loess up to 5 m thick are known and loess continues to be
deposited from the air at rates of several mm/yr." Edward Derbyshire,
"Origin and characteristics of Some Chinese Loess at Two Locations in
China," in M. E. Brookfield and T. S. Ahlbrandt, Eolian Sediments and
Processes, New York: Elsevier, 1983, p. 71
<<So, since we are observing loess formation today, without all this 4th
dimensional mumbo-jumbo, how can you say that the older loess is due to
4th dimensional intrusion?>>
Remarkable. Truly remarkable. The loess nodules the size of a sweet
potato with the snails and embedded mud were deposited and are being
deposited at the rate of several mm/yr by the wind. Truly remarkable.
I would like to observe. Let us both go and if we observe what is in
plates 35-40 while it is happening, I'll pay your expenses and if not
you pay for mine. Deal?
Joseph Mastropaolo