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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thank's.  I once read that there is an underwater crater, I believe near the 
Yacatan Peninsula, that is enough larger than Meteor Crater that the cause of 
the crater might have also been the cause of the extiction of dinosaurs. 
...bobford 


--- On Thu, 6/26/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Very fast climate change
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 6:42 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > Bev; how long did it take for the Colorado to carve
> the Grand Canyon?
> > I've been there a number of times and maybe my
> memory is wrong, but I
> > thought the standard theory was that it took hundreds
> of thousands if
> > not millions of years....bobford
> >
> 
> Well, okay, you caught me exaggerating...<g>, but it
> can happen pretty 
> quickly, even 2000 years is geologically a blink of the
> eye.  And even 
> if the Grand Canyon was carved out in a week, that
> doesn't mean it 
> hasn't been there for millions of years.  I mean, just
> a bit south of 
> there is a big hole in the ground known as Barringer
> Crater, or Meteor 
> crater.  That happened about as quickly as you can imagine,
> almost 50 
> thousand years ago (49 I think, if I'm not a year
> behind)  The climate 
> in that region in the last 50 thousand years has been
> pretty dry.  But 
> seriously, I don't know that there is a consensus on
> how old the canyon 
> is...somewhere between 5 and 20 million years old, I would
> guess, 
> depending on what area you are talking about.  The process
> probably sped 
> up and slowed down depending on the climate of the
> era...whether or not 
> Earth was in an ice age, etc.  For all we know, it may have
> started 
> eroding 15 million years ago-maybe the size of a large
> ditch, then 
> through 3 or 4 different climate eras, carved out what we
> see today.  It 
> hasn't changed all that much in the several thousand
> years humans have 
> been in North America, for sure, but during that time,
> it's been 
> relatively dry.
> Here's something kind of interesting in a sad
> way...look up Providence 
> Canyon...it's a state park down in south Georgia.  They
> call it 
> Georgia's Grand Canyon.  The remarkable thing is that
> the canyon is only 
> about 150 years old.  It's about 150 feet deep,
> too...that's about a 
> foot a year for uniformitarians...<g>  It was caused
> by poor farming 
> practices...a gully run amok<Sp>.
> 
> I like timelines, and I have created a master geological
> timeline..It 
> helps me put things in perspective..it contains things like
> volcanic 
> explosions, impacts, anthropology, etc.  Dates are
> approximate, 
> obviously, and for the most part, I have used the orthodox
> dating making 
> only occasional mention of controversial dating.  The GC
> date is the 
> conventional, orthodox date.
> Here's an excerpt:
> 25 million years ago=First hominids appear, modern looking
> bears, 
> wolves, birds, and horses appear; La Garita supervolcano
> caldera erupts 
> with largest volcanic eruption VEI  9.1 in Colorado
> 13 million years ago= Mass extinctions
> 8 million=Mastodons roam Earth; Southern California area
> 1/2 mile underwater
> 5 million     Impact in Tajikstan forms Karakul crater, 28
> miles wide; 
> Colorado river begins to carve out the Grand Canyon
> 3 million     First upright hominids (Australopithecenes);
> modern whales; 
> megalodon swam the seas
> 2 million      Advanced Australopithicus in Africa; Yellowstone
> 
> supervolcanic eruption forming Huckleberry Ridge
> 1.5 million   Homo habilis appears
> 1 million     Homo erectus appears
> 900 thousand  Magnetic pole flip (Jaramillo event)
> 750 thousand  First stone artifacts found; multiple
> cratering event on 
> ice-covered Antarctica over thousands of miles in area
> 600 thousand  Ancient volcano creates Yellowstone NP
> 
> And if you are still reading, you now understand that
> 'Bev is Earth' 
> thing...lol...and you say, yup, she's a Taurean
> alright.
> 
> Bev
> 
> 
> -- 
> BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 34.498N       85.076W    Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky                           
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