Subj : Re: Old News
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Wed Dec 03 2025 22:10:57

-=> Rob Mccart wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 RM> That was my first thought as well, materials from earlier eruptions,
 RM> but there was some wild inaccuracy there. It sort of sounds like
 RM> the numbers were thrown off when the organic materials rather than
 RM> just dying normally were subjected to the super high heat of the
 RM> lava flow there.  There was talk about layers of charred bark from
 RM> other eruptions too which added to the confusion.

 JA>Interesting. So it might be hard for them to accurately date any of it...

 RM> I suppose things that 'died' in a normal way can be dated fairly
 RM> accurately but if they end up in Lava or spend hundreds of years
 RM> under water or something, it sounds like it could be a problem.
 RM> Lava and fire contact is likely by far the worst.

 RM> I think the most accurate results they've gotten were on plants
 RM> and animals that died in the far north and have been frozen and
 RM> buried under the ice for the last XX,000 years..

Well... Accurate based on current models. :-)



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