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To: Renfield
Owens gives a date of 200,000 ka for the Socastee. Your blue-line graph shows sea level at that date being lower than it is today, so the same conundrum still applies.

Maybe not. I went back to have another look at the abstract(?) of the study I posted in #225. Ran across this little jewel I recall reading but dismissed(?) because I had found what I was looking for in the previous sentence. From that abstract:

It follows that the present elevation of the substage 5a shoreline cannot be explained by uplift or subsidence, and that relative sea-level positions for substage 5a along the South Carolina coast were approximately the same as MIS 5e or the present day.

You'll need to reread #225 to get the whole picture but essentially what this 2005 study concluded, amongst other things, is the 5a layer(ca. 82 ka.) and the 5e(ca. 130-116 ka.), were virtually the same. I don't quite know what to make of that given the "blue line" graph indicating otherwise, except that the blue line graph is possibly/likely wrong? IOW, your arguments are holding up, at least under this layman's scrutiny. Bravo........so far.

246 posted on 08/14/2006 9:55:15 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: ForGod'sSake; Renfield

"given the blue line graph indicating otherwise"

Actually it doesn't appear to me that the blue line graph does indicate otherwise. At 82ka the sea level was about -45m, from 130-116ya sea level was rising rapidly and passed through the -45m level, so depending on the precise date of the deposition of the 5e, or the area analyzed, they both could have been at the -45m level. If you have the graphic skills, perhaps you could stretch out the blue line graph on the horizontal to get a more precise fix on when the 130-116ya line crossed the same level as the -82ka line.


251 posted on 08/14/2006 12:54:20 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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