"Credit must be given to observation rather than theories, and to theories only insofar as they are confirmed by the observed facts."

Aristotle

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     

 

Earth Science

Why are there stone-age cultures in very recent history?

Why are there fossilized upright trees in coal?

Where has all of the sediment presently going into the oceans gone?

Over 27 billion tons of sediments enter the oceans each year. Even assuming a constant flow of this pace, the current sediments on the ocean bottom would have accumulated in only 30 million years.

What caused the Ice Age?