Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, June 01, 2009 2:33:25 PM
A neo-scientist is off the uniformitarian reservation by advocating a global catastrophe that resulted in the extinction of sea life.
Ancient Eruption Killed off World's Sea Life
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090528/sc_afp/uspaleontologychina_20090528195207
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A huge volcanic eruption in China some 260 million years ago led to the sudden extermination of marine life clear around the world, British paleontologists announced Thursday, in a report being published this week in the journal Science.
[The age of 260 million is derived from the position in the geologic column complied and dated under the assumption of evolution theory]
The researchers were able to pinpoint the exact timing of the massive eruption thanks to a layer of fossilized rock which showed mass extinction of different life forms -- clearly linking the volcanic blasts to a major environmental catastrophe.
[Clearly?]
"The abrupt extinction of marine life we can clearly see in the fossil record firmly links giant volcanic eruptions with global environmental catastrophe," said Paul Wignall, a professor and palaeontologist at the University of Leeds, who was the lead author of the research paper in the May 29 edition of Science.
[Clearly again? This may be the end of his career at the university]
The eruption in southwest China unleashed about a half million cubic kilometers of lava, covering an area five times the size of Wales, according to the research by scientists at the British university.
The mass extinction of ocean life came about because of the collision of fast flowing lava with shallow sea water, which caused a violent explosion at the start of the eruptions and threw huge quantities of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
[Glad to see that he dropped the word clearly on this claim.]
"When fast flowing, low viscosity magma meets shallow sea ... there's spectacular explosion producing gigantic clouds of steam," Wignall said.
[Could it be that massive earth quake and volcanic activity were and continue to be associated with the Genesis Flood?]