Helen Thomas could be 10 to 15 Millions years older than previously thought
There! Fixed it!
Posted on 03/08/2011 5:04:42 AM PST by decimon
ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2011) — A new University of Florida study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state's geologic history, showing the land which is now Florida could be 10 million to 15 million years older than previously believed.
The discovery of land in Florida during the early Eocene opens the possibility for researchers to explore the existence of land animals at that time, including their adaptation, evolution and dispersal until the present.
Florida Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist Jonathan Bloch, who was not involved in the current study, said he is especially interested in the finding and future related research.
"As a paleontologist who studies the evolution of mammals, my first question is 'OK, if there was land here at that time, what kinds of animals lived here?' " Bloch said. "Most of our current understanding of the evolution of early mammals comes from fossils discovered out west."
The study in the current issue of the journal Palynology by David Jarzen, a research scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, determined sediment collected from a deep injection well contained local, land-based pollen, disproving the popular belief Florida was underwater 45 million years ago during the early Eocene.
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Florida 15 million tears older...yea and they’re all down in south Florida
That's good, I hadn't hear the "by way of the zoo" before.
Here are the others I know of:
goo to you
molecules to man
particles to people
Someone yesterday was insisting that the assertion that evolution was a fact was not asserting molecules to man.
It would be interesting to me to discern the driving motivation behind this contradictory assertion.
I think, or conjecture, that he believes that the observed evidence of adaptation is proof of cross species evolution, but for some reason knew he couldn't defend goo to you by way of the zoo.
This scientist must have been driving through the Del Boca Vista Condominiums - Phase III. Lots of dinosaurs migrated there from the cold northern climate of Brooklyn.
——Who the hell cares.....——
The graduate student seeking the next degree
btt
Florida - originator of the early Archaeopteryx special.
Helen Thomas could be 10 to 15 Millions years older than previously thought
There! Fixed it!
Advice on “science-speak”: When one sees weasel words such as “could,” “maybe,” “perhaps,” “might be,” “possibly,” and so on in a science article or in the underlying study, take 1 grain of salt with the article.
Yeah, Florida indeed could be millions of years older than previously thought. Or it could not. Maybe it is. Well, maybe it isn’t.
Beware of a subtle “science-speak” trick as well: At some point the “could” gets forgotten and becomes an “is” — with no actual new evidence to support the assertion, or any actual evidence; nothing.
To take everything with a grain of salt is something new to you?
A dinosauer was found with support stockings on its hind legs.
Hey, I was outta town when this went down.
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You made me lol.
Well they use a “similar” process as an “injection well” on the residence of florida... but didnt know you can use it to date them...
Publish or perish!
It’s been a retirement community since Moses, everyone knows that!
So it’s older than dirt?
They never attributed the rising sea level to global warming.
My guess is that it is exactly as old as dirt.
Most things made of dirt are as old as dirt.
Strange word... dirt. Looks funny.
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