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In this episode: Was Noah's flood a worldwide flood? or was it a local flood? Why does it matter? Is there evidence of a worldwide flood?
Random References:
Cheung, S. P., R. Strom, J. H. Whitmore and P. G. Garner. 2009. Occurrence of dolomite beds, clasts, ooids and unidentified microfossils in the Coconino Sandstone. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, session 35-4; Whitmore, J. H. and R. Strom. 2009. Petrographic analysis of the Coconino Sandstone, northern and central Arizona. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, session 35-24. Reprints available from the authors.
Barrick, W.D. and Sigler R., Hebrew and
geologic analyses of the chronology and
parallelism of the Flood: implications for
interpretation of the geologic record; in:
Ivey Jr, R.L. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth
International conference on Creationism,
Technical Symposium Sessions, Creation
Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, PA, pp.
397--408, 2003.
The Joggins Polystrate Fossils, chapter 13 from "Rock Solid Answers"
References for CrEvo Rant #17: What happened to the dinosaurs?
Chicxulub impact predates the K/T boundary mass extinction:
Gerta Keller, et al., PNAS, Vol 101(11)
And
Iridium in Volcanic Dust:
Iridium enrichment in volcanic dust from blue ice fields, Antarctica, and possible relevance to the K/T boundary event,
Christian Koeberl, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 92 (1989) 317-322
Iridium Enrichment in Airborne Particles from Kilauea Volcano: January 1983
WILLIAM H. ZOLLER, et al., Science 9 December 1983: Vol. 222 no. 4628 pp. 1118-1121 DOI: 10.1126/science.222.4628.1118
Hadrosaur survived K/T extinction by 700,000 years:
Direct U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene dinosaur bones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.
J. E. Fassett, L. M. Heaman, A. Simonetti. Geology, 2011; 39 (2): 159 DOI: 10.1130/G31466.1
Iridium above the K/T boundary:
Iridium anomaly approximately synchronous with terminal eocene extinctions., Alvarez W, Asaro F, Michel HV, Alvarez LW., Science, Science. 1982 May 21;216(4548):886-8.
Iridium below the K/T boundary:
Terminal Ordovician extinction: Geochemical analysis of the Ordovician/Silurian boundary, Anticosti Island, Quebec, Orth, C. J.; Gilmore, J. S.; Quintana, L. R.; Sheehan, P. M., Geology (1986), 14(5), 433-6 CODEN: GLGYBA; ISSN: 0091-7613
Iridium abundances across the Ordovician-Silurian stratotype, Wilde, Pat; Berry, William B. N.; Quinby-Hunt, Mary S.; Orth, Charles J.; Quintana, Leonard R.; Gilmore, James S., Science (Washington, DC, United States) (1986), 233(4761), 339-41 CODEN: SCIEAS; ISSN: 0036-8075
Iridium anomaly in the Upper Devonian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia, Playford, Phillip E.; McLaren, Digby J.; Orth, Charles J.; Gilmore, James S.; Goodfellow, Wayne D., Science (Washington, DC, United States) (1984), 226(4673), 437-9 CODEN: SCIEAS; ISSN: 0036-8075
Iridium abundance patterns across bio-event horizons in the fossil record. Orth, C.J., Attrep Jr., M. and Quintana, L.R., In: Global Catastrophes in Earth History: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Impacts, Volcanism, and Mass Mortality, V.L. Sharpton and P.D. Ward (eds), Special Paper 247, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 45--59, 1990
Shocked quartz from volcanoes:
Officer, C., Victims of volcanoes, New Scientist 137(1861): 34--38, 1993.
Officer, C. and Page, J., The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, 1996