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>> What I would love to see are paleo-maps say 18,000 to 12,000 years ago that reflect the extant sea level and exposed lands. For the Puget Sound, let's say, I have to take my marine maps and color in the areas presently 20 fathoms or less. Then again, I…

>> Good post. There's just one thing I'd like to add: what about predator traps like the La Brea Tar Pits? Hundreds and hundreds of skeletons, both total and partial, all well preserved by the tar. La Brea is one of the finest sites ever found for Recent mammals and…

Jon, >>Can you cite evidence for cyclothems forming today. Where? Where by processes occuring today do we see the development of coal beds or oil fields? The Gulf Coat of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and northern Florida is very similar to the environment that formed the Pennsylvaniian and Mesozoic caol fields…

I suggest you read, if you haven't already, Derek Ager's _The New Catastrophism, the importance of the rare events in geological history_, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-42019-9. Be sure to read his preface.

What I would love to see are paleo-maps say 18,000 to 12,000 years ago that reflect the extant sea level and exposed lands. For the Puget Sound, let's say, I have to take my marine maps and color in the areas presently 20 fathoms or less. Then again, I have…

Ok, here is a recent article Ebirth, D. A., 1994. Depositional environments and facies transitions of dinosaur-bearing Upper Cretaceous redbeds at Bayan Mandahu (Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China). Can. J. Earth Sci. Volume 30: 2196-2213. This article is made by Canadian scientist who visited the sites. Sites in an…

So how do you explain a Permian Ice Age? It happened at the boundary or near the boundary of the Permian and Triassic. If you don't validate it, there is something wrong. Why are there no Trilobites with mosasaurs or Ichthyosaurs? Tracy.

Jon W., >> The right question to ask is: can turbidity currents explain the existence of limestone layers right above shale layers?

Jon, Sorry, what I posted was all I know on that particular subject. >> There is a difference between the limited variation found in the genetic pool of any given species and the kind of changes envisioned by the theory of evolution. Creationists have no argument with the kind of…