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paleonet reference needed



Would anyone be able to provide information about a figure in 
"John Thackray, The Age of the Earth (1980)"?  I have a citation by a young-earth advocate who is trying to reject the geologic column.  He quotes enough to demonstrate that Thackray actually disproves the claim, thereby demonstrating his own ignorance.  However, I would like to confirm whether the quotation is accurate.  I also want to quantify the ignorance, which would require a list of the taxa shown in Thackray's figure 21, p. 10.  He calls all of the taxa shells, whereas the quote demonstrates that Thackray at least figures some microfossils.  However, calling a foram a shell is a more plausible mistake than calling a graptolite a shell, and the quote suggests but does not say that graptolites are figured.  

Thanks!

    Dr. David Campbell 
    Old Seashells 
    University of Alabama 
    Biodiversity & Systematics 
    Dept. Biological Sciences 
    Box 870345 
    Tuscaloosa, AL  35487 USA
    bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com

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