Directory of Geologic Column Resources

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The term geologic column is applied to a composite columnar section in which there is an attempt to superimpose rocks representing every period of time for the world as a whole. In this way it is thought that the column can be used somewhat like a calendar for dating rock formations. Time units used in the geologic column include eras, the major divisions such as Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic; periods, the first subdivisions of eras including Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, etc.; epochs, the subdivisions of periods such as Lower, Middle and Upper Cambrian, or Paleocene, Eocene and so on in the Tertiary period; and stages, divisions of the epochs used primarily by specialists. For each time division there is a unit of strata equivalent.

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• The Geologic Column

  http://www.bible.ca/tracks/dp-geol-column.htm
  A site which argues that the complete geologic column does not exist and is pieced together by circular logic.

• The Geologic Column

  http://www.detectingdesign.com/geologiccolumn.html
  This site argues that popular theories of geology and the formation of the geologic column may in fact have significant flaws that might be better explained by a relatively sudden global catastrophe or closely spaced series of very large catastrophes.

• The Geologic Column: Does It Exist?

  http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp
  John Woodmorappe examines the credibility of the concept of a geologic column and claims that it does not exist to any substantive extent.

• The Geological Column

  http://www.nwcreation.net/geologycolumn.html
  A site which claims the geological column has been misinterpreted due to a failure of the scientific community to recognize the occurrence of the global flood, and there is evidence these formations are relatively young.

 

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