Re: [OT] Plato\'s Pub and Philosophical Society
"Dating the Past Fredrick E Zeuner says "Many forms of life existed for comparitively short persiod only and therefore afford valuable data for the correlation of strata in distant places" on page 307."
Simple method where this sort of thing can work.
You've found X fossil in several rock formations. They all date to approximately the same age. Now you find another X fossil in another rock formation. You can't date these rocks directly, because they don't have enough of the proper elements (dating based on nuclear decay doesn't work if there's nothing to decay). So you can say that the rocks are -probably- about the same age as the other rocks holding X fossil.
Immanuel Velikovsky- what I've heard of him was been..somewhat less than favorable. The words junk science comes to mind.
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