Sea Levels?
Dear Todd,
Many thanks for your reply. Yes, I well remember the 'Drifter' controversy,
and was amused to see recently that Nature – which I despise in certain
respects – is rewriting the story as some kind of friendly debate. As a small
boy in the fifties I read all about it, saw that the continents in fact do NOT
fit together, and made a globe with the continents thus accurately represented.
They fitted very much better than the Mercator maps, of course, but I still
wince to recall the treatment I got when I eagerly displayed my little treasure
at my school.
None of which proves ANYTHING about the sea-level idea. With that I am at the
same point I was with "cold fusion" years ago. That took me years to decide
on, because there was a clear clash between logic and my knowledge of physics –
which beats my knowledge of geology hands down. I did have one University year
on it as a 'half subject', so I can at least (just about) follow the jargon,
but that was thirty years or more ago!
On this one I'm floundering because I just don't know where to start looking. I
have pretty much decided to try to get to the bottom – haha – of this one, and
it will probably take me years to decide. I'd hoped to get some leads to
sources, or some info of substance, that might save me quite a lot of time.
The whole thing may just be a tissue of nonsense and distortions. I'd just
like to make my own mind up, and without a great deal of raw data I can't do
that. For a start, is it true that the Gulf of Mexico has evaporites too?
Chris