[Coral-List] Geologists and deep time

[Michael Risk]

I am not sure of the purpose of this comment, other than to waste Inbox space of the 4,000-odd subscribers to this List.

Had you asked me, I would have said: reefs have died like flies from climate change all through the Phanerozoic. The MOST RAPID recolonisation was the 1,000 years it took reefs to reoccupy the shelves during the Holocene Transgression. Usually, they vanish for 10's of millions of years. We are now facing a rate of climate change never previously seen.

You should have asked a smarter geologist.

Mike

On 2013-09-19, at 7:25 AM, boc wrote:

> As a neontologist, I asked a geologist what he thought of climate change
> effects. His reply "Not much"...hmmmm.
> BOC
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Peter Sale
> Sent: 18 September 2013 22:14
> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Gene Shinn re Reef Reminiscences
> 
> Hey, Gene, you old curmudgeon,
> I cannot resist this.
> Yes, all the scientists who contributed to Reef Reminiscences are
> biologists.  The geologists we invited to participate declined.  Do you
> remember me asking you to write something?
> And yes, geologists on average do seem to have a better understanding of
> deep time than do biologists, so I am sorry they did not get represented in
> Reef Reminiscences..
> Peter Sale
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Michael Risk
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