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Amazon River Up To 11 Million Years Old, Says Study
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| July 7th 2009
| News Staff
Posted on 07/08/2009 12:55:12 PM PDT by decimon
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No, that's not Lucy in the sky.
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posted on
07/08/2009 12:55:12 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/08/2009 12:56:09 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
But she doesn’t look a day over nine. Ten million tops.
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posted on
07/08/2009 12:56:49 PM PDT
by
marron
To: decimon
Do they mean the riverbed or the ‘river’....if it’s the ‘river’ that water would be mighty stale by now...
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posted on
07/08/2009 12:56:49 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: decimon
They drilled a core into the Fox River near Green Bay and found 11 inches of wood pulp.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
They drilled a core into the Fox River near Green Bay and found 11 inches of wood pulp.Beaver.
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posted on
07/08/2009 12:59:02 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
....Until recently the Amazon Fan, a sediment column of around 10 kilometres in thickness, proved a hard nut to crack, and scientific drilling expeditions such as Ocean Drilling Program could only reach a fraction of it. Recent exploration efforts by Petrobras lifted the veil, and sedimentological and paleontological analysis on samples from two boreholes, one of which 4.5 kilometres below sea floor, now permit an insight into the history of both Amazon River and Fan.......
Using only two points of data are what I call, in academic terms, grossly overexaggerated BS....
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posted on
07/08/2009 12:59:08 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: decimon
The bottom must be a mile deep in fish poop.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:00:01 PM PDT
by
devane617
(Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
To: Gaffer
The river is not the water that flows through it any more than a highway is the cars that drive on it. ;)
Yet I imagine that many of those atoms in those water molecules have made that particular passage many times over the last 11 million years.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:00:10 PM PDT
by
allmendream
("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
To: decimon
To: decimon
I find this very very hard to believe. There may have been rivers in the Amazon Basin area for this amount of time, but the river itself probably wasn’t. Oxbow lakes and meanders can form very very quickly and it would be very unlikely that the entire river would remain unchanged for over 2 million years
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:01:30 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: decimon
All I know is that I’m never swimming in it. I watch the show about fish in the Amazon.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:01:44 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: decimon
Sarah Palin’s gonna have a very tough time explaining just who or what was swimming amid all those piranhas for the prior 10,996,000 years.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:04:37 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: LukeL
The mouth of the river has probably been fairly stable but I tend to agree about the river wandering.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:06:02 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: cripplecreek
The fish are not nearly as dangerous as the flat worms that can swim up your urethra and take up residence in your bladder.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:08:19 PM PDT
by
allmendream
("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
To: cripplecreek
I don’t doubt the delta has been there that long, even the source of the river, but in between can change a lot even from one bad storm.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:08:25 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: decimon
I’m pretty sure there’s a sea monster in there somewhere.
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:09:14 PM PDT
by
exist
To: decimon
Not true. It can’t be older than 6,000 years. Probably much younger, since it’s not even mentioned in Genesis.
To: decimon
sedimentological and paleontological analysis on samples from two boreholesWhat do Biden and Gore have to do with this?
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:12:10 PM PDT
by
VirginiaConstitutionalist
(The top 1% of income earners earn 17% of the income, but pay 39% of the income taxes. "Fair share?")
To: allmendream
Point taken...however my later post indicates that data taken from only TWO boring points, in engineering terms, can fit a buttload of different curves.....curves in this case might apply to age, possibly?
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posted on
07/08/2009 1:12:54 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
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