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This or that dogma don't hunt.

Without an Indiana Jones of geology glamour, life's tough to get a name for one's self. One old geologist told me that the occupational hazzards are sprained ankles, bad water, and paper cuts.

Uniformitarianism is but long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of terror in planetary time frame. Old news is no news.

Economic geologists will eventually be out of work unless new stuff rides up to the surface.

What I like is the certainty of (if seldom) impacts, solar flame throwers with severe radiation changing genetic codes, and axis tilts - with or without wobbles.

"Sudden" axis changes would slosh our oceans across continents exchanging ecology with hypertsunami. I can think of little else on earth so awesome because other maximal catastrophes would obscure with smoke and ash throughout the atmosphere.

A deep water impact would rain hellacious hail or hot rain plus the normal stuff..

I can hardly remember details, but I think that a site in the Inside Passage Alaska/B.C. has a slosh scour discovered about a third of a mile above sea level, some 600 meters. Dangerous but very cool. Likely from just a slide splash.

Image a water column suddenly a kilometer in altitude moving in relation to the surface at hypervelocity. Conversely, imagine the Gulf of Mexico going empty as South or North America gets wet, for the moment. The fish would not know what if anything was happening until slashdown.

We have our tilt somehow. When did it happen?

IMHO, everyone should keep a bottle of their favorite beverage, aged at least a couple of decades, inhouse for those special occasions when, "Oh sh!+!" is not quite enough.

I'm ready for the next ice age, the Post-Kyoto/Bushian era. Imagine tens of millions of blonde Slavs, Finns, and Scandanavians with darkening tans coming to stay! Igloos in South Africa, New Zealand, and Austrailia? We'd need a heapin' bowl of Chili.

IMHO, everyone should keep a bottle of their favorite beverage, aged at least a couple of decades, inhouse for those special occasions when, "Oh sh!+!" is not quite enough.

But, as has been pointed out on ANOTHER thread,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1016215/posts?page=51#51

those massive 'events' do NOT cause evolutionary changes...

(or was it the SMALL events?????)