RE: Earth Rotation and the Flood

Arthur V. Chadwick (chadwicka@swau.edu)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 20:06:08 -0700

At 02:24 PM 10/8/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Greetings Art:
>
>Looking at that one photo, it takes a fair amount of imagination to see
those impressions as a "frond". Since you had said that's what it was I
was pre-conditioned to see it that way, but had I not been told what to
expect, I would never have recognized it. Also, I see no perpendicular
"laminae" and the "second fossil" is indistinguishable. If it really is a
frond it looks like it had fallen onto one layer of rhythmite and the been
covered by another, so that when the fossil was exposed the rock split
along the plane of the rhythmite layers, with one layer below the fossil
and the other "above" it on the piece of rock that was removed to see the
fossil.

I don't know what your training or experience is, but I suspect it is
neither botany nor geology, so I can understand your missing the beautiful
specimen perpendicular to the admittedly faint laminae (which are very
obvious in hand specimen. I will try to either section the rock or acid
etch it (or both) real soon now.
Art
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