Re: K

[jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jere H. Lipps)]

That is correct.  A good brief discussion of all of this is Bill Berry's
"Growth of a prehistoric time scale", in case you forgot about this little
book (Freeman).

>I can't remember if it was on this list that someone mentioned that
>'English geologists named the Cretaceous Period using the Latin',
>well...it wasn't:).  A Belgian geologist by the name of Omalius
>d'Halloy, in 1882, proposed the term for strata surrounding the Paris
>Basin (according to Eicher 1976 *Geologic Time*).
>
>
>Neil Clark
>Curator of Palaeontology
>Hunterian Museum
>University of Glasgow
>email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk
>
>The first law of Geology is the law of supposition.
>(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)