Although there are some interesting questions about Columbia River Basalts and glacial deposits that I would like to answer, I am unfortunately busy getting ready to go to Louisiana for the annual Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies meeting starting Wednesday evening and lasting through Friday with a all day field trip Saturday. This is how geologists stay in touch with what other geologists are doing by listening to talks; looking at posters; talking with other geologists;, and actually looking at the geology close up and dirty on field trips. In fact, I will be meeting, on the side, in person for the first time with other geologists, who either are or plan to be active in preparing written reviews of Young Earth creationist arguments and ideas for the lay public over a beer or two and, possibly dinner.
Until, I have time to get back to flood basalts and continental glaciers, I will leave people on this list with a couple of references to wind-blown diatoms that I found on the Internet. They are:
"BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WIND-BLOWN DIATOMS, DIATOM
DISPERSAL AND AEOLIAN PARTICLES collected by
Margaret A. Harper" at:
Indiana University Bloomington
and
Evidence for Dust Bowl dust in Greenland
Geotimes - June 2003 - Geophenomena
"they dated the dust and found that it arrived in
Greenland between 1933 and early 1934; the
clay minerals of the dust correlate with either
an American or African origin; and the diatoms
they found - the silica shells of aquatic algae
that can travel with the wind - were all
common North American species,..."
Yours,
Bill Birkeland
Texas
[This message has been edited by Bill Birkeland, 10-21-2003]