Posted on 07/03/2008 11:08:44 AM PDT by decimon
Snowball ping
Are these the same area/formations as the Decca basalts?
From a quick web search, I'd say no.
I wonder what the silly misguided fundies who believe the Earth is only 6,500 or so years old will think of this?
These basins are more in Central India and are Precambrian. The Deccan Traps are in the southern part of India and are Cretaceous.
This is why waiting around makes time pass slower, while doing something fun makes it pass faster.
That’s how I understand the Theory of Relativity with regards to time. Time always go slower when the relatives are visiting.
Another kick to Al Gore’s nuts.
Which years?
His snowballs?
This may be a little complex but give it a try:
Well if everything was covered in snow and ice, I wouldn't have come out either.
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But it had to get warm and stay that way until the ice ages started, as the latest reports I have read in Science is that the oldest ice that can be found is approximately 800,000 years old, that was when the ice ages started according to the Science folks and every 100,000 years a new Ice age arrives so it is about time. But then today the so called experts say that warming is taking place because of humans so must have been a master civilization before that!!!!
“Complex life originated hundreds of million year earlier?”
Although the earth may have been covered with snow and ice, there would have been areas around volcanoes, hot springs, “mid-Atlantic rifts”, and the like which would have been hospitible to life and potential incubators for more complex forms. Refer to the fascinating life forms that are being found around vents (smokers) near the mid-Atlantic rift. Also I wonder if by “complex life” you are referring to bacteria as opposed to viruses, or to critters like those found in the Burgess Shales as opposed to bacteria and protozoans.
Life first occurred on earth about 3.5 billion years ago (ya). The complex forms in the Burgess Shales in the early Cambrian would suggest a very long period of evolution, although some scientists refer to the Cambrian Explosion, personally I think that it must have been a much longer period of development. Here is an interesting link suggesting that life began about 3.85 billion ya and that by 2.5 billion ya there were simple amoeba like forms:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/3/text_pop/l_033_28.html
Here a Burgess Shale link: http://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess/
Some time ago I read about 3 major precambrian impact events. This site lists major North American impact craters including the giant Sudbury, which was originally 250 K in diameter and occurred about 1.8 billion ya:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Earth_Images_09.html
Some time ago I read about 3 major precambrian impact events. This site lists major North American impact craters including the giant Sudbury, which was originally 250 K in diameter and occurred about 1.8 billion ya...Thanks g!
great link, thanks, went to the Main Menu and found this one on Mars:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/04images/Mars2/Open_Pit01_sm.png
Reminds me of the Silverpit Impact Crater in the North Sea, discovered in 2002 by oil geologists:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38168000/jpg/_38168726_crater150.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2164058.stm
But back to the article...”Much of the basins are composed of sediments that cannot be dated using any method. But Meert said the sediment also contains zircon, which can be dated using laser mass spectrometry ...”
Question: And dating the zircon proves what?
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