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From: stas...@alc-ohio.alc.com (Chris Stassen)
Subject: Re: WHY Re: Age of the Earth
Message-ID: <1994Jan24.142249.21276@alc-ohio.alc.com>
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Organization: The Lion's Den - Newark, Ohio 
References: <mI-cu*v80@alturia.abq.nm.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 14:22:49 GMT
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Allen Newton asks (regarding the mid-Atlantic magnetic record):
> isn't it possible (perhaps even more reasonable) that magnetic chunks
> of material [could have] ended up in any of various configurations?
> Wouldn't this explain the different directions as well?

No, this isn't a good explanation.  It does not account for the
"mirror-image" pattern of the data.  It cannot account for the fact
that the orientation of magnetic particles in fine sediments
*matches* the pattern observed in the rocks. e.g.:


                  Sediments
     _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___
                                                     ___/  .
                                      +          ___/      .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ___/          .
                        -                ___/.             .
     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ___/    .             .
                                 ___/.       .             .
                 +           ___/    .       .             .
                         ___/        .       .             .
     . . . . . . . . ___/            .       .             .
          -      ___/.               .       .      +      .  Rocks
     . . . . ___/    .               .       .             .
      +  ___/.       .               .   -   .             .
     ___/    .       .               .       .             .
             .       .      +        .       .             .
             .   -   .               .       .             .
        +    .       .               .       .             .

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Chris Stassen [stas...@alc.com]     (614) 366-9628      Caltech '84  <><