Sometime after Mount St. Helens blew its top, a geology professor took his students on a field trip to the area. He pointed to a layer of black sandwiched between lighter colour strata of a tractor machine cut on the side of a small hill.
He asked his students "How many years old was the later of black strata?"
The answers came back in varying degrees of millions of years.
Then he told them that the layer of black strata was the former National Forest Station parking lot.
These sorts of stories are common on YEC sites. If this were a true story these would be very poor Geology students or maybe a geo 101 class as the first you need to establish is what process was laying down the layers. Every geologist (or student geologist) know layers can be deposited quickly as flooding is a very common geological process. The questions that should come up are pollen gradients present which would indicate the layers represent years? are fossils or evidence of bioturbation in the layers? radiometric data? etc.
Apocryphal Student Geology Story (Score:5, Interesting)
Sometime after Mount St. Helens blew its top, a geology professor took his students on a field trip to the area. He pointed to a layer of black sandwiched between lighter colour strata of a tractor machine cut on the side of a small hill.
He asked his students "How many years old was the later of black strata?"
The answers came back in varying degrees of millions of years.
Then he told them that the layer of black strata was the former National Forest Station parking lot.
Re:Apocryphal Student Geology Story (Score:5, Informative)
These sorts of stories are common on YEC sites. If this were a true story these would be very poor Geology students or maybe a geo 101 class as the first you need to establish is what process was laying down the layers. Every geologist (or student geologist) know layers can be deposited quickly as flooding is a very common geological process. The questions that should come up are pollen gradients present which would indicate the layers represent years? are fossils or evidence of bioturbation in the layers? radiometric data? etc.
Re: (Score:1)
"t" is next to "y' on the keyboard.