Re: Earth Rotation and the Flood

Steven H. Schimmrich (sschimmr@calvin.edu)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 09:29:27 -0400

At 08:00 AM 10/5/98 -0700, Art Chadwick wrote:
>
> At 07:49 PM 10/4/98 -0500, Glenn wrote:
>
>> Are these cycles the fortnight cycles? If so, there is no problem. Leaves
>> today last quite a long time in lakes and streams prior to their destruction.
>
> These very delicate lace-like leaves would have to have stood vertically in
> the water column, unsupported, with no evidence of decay, while daily tidal
> currents swept repeatedly across them, for two months (at least). Not a
> chance. There is a problem with that interpretation. But maybe it would
> be easier to explain away the leaves than to attempt to reinvestigate the
> data on the cycles.

Can you be a little more specific on where this leaf was collected from and
a reference, perhaps, on who has interpreted this deposit as a tidal rhythmite?

- Steve.

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