[Coral-List] Geologists and deep time

[Iain Macdonald]

Dear BOC,

Rather ironically in your post you pick up on "deep time". The man who pioneered this, James Hutton - 18th century!, also could be termed as the father of climate change (better know as father of modern geology) in so much as he pioneered the belief that the earth was one "super-organism" - (e.g., James Lovelock's - Gaia).

The continual bickering on this list is divisive. So please stick to science.

Iain Macd
A Marine Biologist/Ecologist /Geologist - or just a Marine Scientist.


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 From: boc <boc at aquafact.ie>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov 
Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2013, 12:25
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Geologists and deep time
 

As a neontologist, I asked a geologist what he thought of climate change
effects. His reply "Not much"...hmmmm.
BOC

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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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