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Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed
ScienceDaily ^
| Sunday, May 17, 2009
| Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, via EurekAlert!
Posted on 05/25/2009 4:20:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:20:13 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:21:14 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago -- 18 million years before the previously accepted start date for the Andes' rise, according to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama,Just to be clear here. These "researchers" are scientists, right?
As in, scientists say the earth is warming. Scientists say evolution is real, etc.
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:22:59 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: SunkenCiv
Well they’re older than me.
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:30:57 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Texas Eagle
Well at least these “researchers”, as in scientiests, know where the 6000 year time line is located in a 25 million year old deposit of sediment.
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:32:24 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: SunkenCiv
...the rapid advance of a sinking wedge of material as part of tectonic events 31 million years ago may have set the stage for the subsequent rise of the range. Hmmm...I have that sinking feeling they are trying to say subduction without really saying it. And I want to know what CAUSED the rapid advance of a sinking wedge of material because it sounds like a lot of energy would be required. But I'm not a 'scientist' so I guess I'll just have to take their word for it. Like H*ell I will.
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:35:49 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: SunkenCiv
No sheeet, Eh???
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:36:18 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s easy to find fault with geologists.
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:37:26 PM PDT
by
relictele
To: SunkenCiv
Andies Mountains, Chile
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:51:29 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
isn’t there an ancient seaport that was found high up in the Andes?
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posted on
05/25/2009 4:55:59 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: relictele
Stop being such a sedimentalist.
To: stefanbatory; Fred Nerks
Tiahuanaco, but it wasn’t a seaport, it was a port on the lake, but there’s probably more to come from Fred Nerks on that topic.
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posted on
05/25/2009 5:01:57 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: relictele
that calls for...
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posted on
05/25/2009 5:08:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: JoeProBono
The candies are much younger than this.
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posted on
05/25/2009 5:09:08 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
you mean the Lemurians have been lying to me? :o
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posted on
05/25/2009 5:22:33 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: Texas Eagle
Is everyone in Texas an idiot or just you?
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posted on
05/25/2009 5:27:04 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
To: SunkenCiv
Tiahuanacu (also called Tiwanaku) is a mystery because of its age (estimated to be 17,000 years) and the peculiar stone technology. LINK
Puma Punku, truly startles the imagination. It seems to be the remains of a great wharf (for Lake Titicaca long ago lapped upon the shores of Tiahuanaco) and a massive, four-part, now collapsed building. One of the construction blocks from which the pier was fashioned weighs an estimated 440 tons (equal to nearly 600 full-size cars) and several other blocks laying about are between 100 and 150 tons. The quarry for these giant blocks was on the western shore of Titicaca, some ten miles away. There is no known technology in all the ancient world that could have transported stones of such massive weight and size. The Andean people of 500 AD, with their simple reed boats, could certainly not have moved them. Even today, with all the modern advances in engineering and mathematics, we could not fashion such a structure.
Puma Punku ruins, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia
Source: Jean-Pierre Protzen & Stella E.Nair, On Reconstructing Tiwanaku Architecture, Jpurnal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 59, Nr.3, 2000, pp. 358-371
pssst...'they' didn't have to carry it anywhere...IT'S CONCRETE!
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posted on
05/25/2009 5:48:55 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: SunkenCiv
By my calculations, they are about 4300 years old.
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posted on
05/25/2009 6:09:35 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(When do the impeachment proceedings begin?)
To: Fred Nerks
I think that’s a big /bingo.
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posted on
05/25/2009 6:19:07 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: stefanbatory
The Primates of Lemuria are probably trustworthy.
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posted on
05/25/2009 6:21:56 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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