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Wood Buried Under Ocean Floor Thousands of Miles at Sea
Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | 10-22-19 | David F. Coppedge

Posted on 10/22/2019 7:28:33 AM PDT by fishtank

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To: fishtank

Everything you see floating down the river, plants, trees, and garbage, ends up in the ocean. Wood can get saturated with water and will sink to the bottom. And the planet has had hundreds of millions, if not billions of years to dump terrestrial stuff in the ocean.Is this really a mystery?


41 posted on 10/22/2019 1:41:35 PM PDT by oil_dude
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To: fishtank
This expains it.
42 posted on 10/22/2019 2:30:07 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

43 posted on 10/22/2019 11:05:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. A two-list ping!

44 posted on 10/22/2019 11:06:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Gravy? Very small pebbles? A duck!


45 posted on 10/22/2019 11:29:09 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

“Cargo cult with 5th Generation fighter jet effigy?”

_______________

Their design engineers are better than we thought?


46 posted on 10/22/2019 11:32:11 PM PDT by Ken H (Crooked Hillary => Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of rot)
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To: oil_dude

yes,
it’s called spring floods.

Happens every year.


47 posted on 10/22/2019 11:37:53 PM PDT by missthethunder
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To: SunkenCiv

A long time ago, you or someone in one of your threads, posted a site that had a study with survey pics that looked to indicate a massive gianormous impact that pretty much covered the entire southern ocean basin iirc. Scar marks radiating outwards stretched all the way to the landmasses from the impact just north of the antartic landmass or thereabouts.

It was supposed, or theorized, that the world was much drier prior and that the impact was an ice comet and that’s where much of the ocean waters came from. This was also the same site that showed the river runs from the continental shelves down to the seabeds.

You still have that link? Or was that someone else?


48 posted on 10/23/2019 12:02:50 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh, and notice everyone’s avoiding the obvious answer...

Mermaids with wood working hobbies.


49 posted on 10/23/2019 12:04:27 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: fishtank

Sea level rise due to global warming?


50 posted on 10/23/2019 7:26:00 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: thefactor

E.T. proving that hallucinogens and piloting do not mix: https://meteorcrater.com/


51 posted on 10/23/2019 3:22:21 PM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: Grimmy

The wood is from the hollow trees where the elves of ages past baked cookies.


52 posted on 10/24/2019 8:30:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Grimmy
The Eltanin Impact may be what you're sort of remembering, conflated with the Louis Frank small comets. The latter have delivered enough water to Earth over the 4.5 billion years to account for every drop in the oceans; the former was about 2 million years ago and IMHO glaciated Antarctica, which (contrary to what is often claimed) had a temperate climate in at least part of the continent only 2.5 million years ago.

53 posted on 10/24/2019 8:33:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Mmm, maple-flavored manatee.


54 posted on 10/24/2019 11:50:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Grimmy

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/eltanin/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/louisafrank/index


55 posted on 10/24/2019 11:27:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Time to post “The Book.” Firestone, et al.


56 posted on 10/25/2019 10:37:46 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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From the article: “The paper is also silent about how the layers were dated. There is no mention of radiometric dating or radiocarbon (which would not be expected to survive past 100,000 years, anyway). Perhaps the dates were inferred by the layers they were in, according to the geologic column.”

“However the layers were dated, the millions-of-years dates are problematic not just because wood would not be expected to survive so long. Another problem is why so little wood was detected. There was plenty scattered throughout the cores, to be sure, but 19 million years is a long time.”

Since the article refers to multiple sand layers interspersing the mud layers, it is not clear if some of the wood might be young enough to test with C14. The pieces are in mm to cm sizes and dark. Also a thousand feet from shore and dating back as far as 19 million years. Are there other ways besides C14 to test very old wood? I suppose it would be the anoxic conditions that would preserve it as wood rather than fossil.


57 posted on 10/26/2019 12:12:16 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
There's a 50K limit for RC dating; greater sensitivity is poosible out to about 60K I believe, but in practice, in the wild, the samples would have to be demonstrably pristine, a condition that does not alas persist in the oceans. Other radiometric methods would work, but on minerals rather than wood.

58 posted on 10/27/2019 8:50:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: gleeaikin
Good idea.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


59 posted on 10/27/2019 9:10:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin
Feakins notes that, in parallel to emissions reductions, understanding the carbon sequestration services that natural ecosystem and rivers perform can inform decisions about forest management, dam removal and other issues with regard to their potential to help manage the carbon cycle.

So a crash course in 'removal' would be to plant lots of trees, cut them down and dump them in the ocean... Works better that taking our wealth and redistributing it to third world dictators...

60 posted on 10/27/2019 9:13:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (The First Amendment washe J meant to protect speech, not industries. - - Daniel Greenfield)
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