Re: paleonet reference needed

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At 5:24 PM -0400 7/9/02, you wrote:


>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
>
>That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
>Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
>Droitgate Spa

David,

This from GeoRef.

Cheers,

Christopher Crow

GeoRef Document Delivery Service
TI: [Monograph] The age of the Earth
AU: Thackray, John
SO: 36 pp., 1980
IB: 0118840770
PB: Inst. Geol. Sci., London, United Kingdom (GBR)
FE: illus. incl. sketch maps
LA: English
PY: 1980
PD: 19800000
PT: Book; Monographic
CP: United Kingdom (GBR)
DE: age; Earth; evolution; popular geology; theoretical studies
CL: 18, Solid-earth geophysics
CY: GeoRef, Copyright 1999, American Geological Institute.
UD: 1987
AN: 1987-016222