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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Very fast climate change
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:42:38 -0700 (PDT)

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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