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From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Any Recent-creation Creationists out
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Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 10:15:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  7 10:15:40 1985
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> Better be careful about this question.  It has been calculated from the
> combined effects of suspended particles and dissolved materials removed by
> rivers that the surface of the United States is being stripped away at an
> average rate of one foot in 9000 years.  Other materials in the stream and
> riverbeds (i.e. pebbles and particles which are rolled , slid, and moved
> bodily along the bottom by currents) cannot be measured and are therefore not
> included, leaving a conservative calculation.  For the 1,265,000 square
> miles in the Mississippi River drainage basin, the estimate is one foot
> per 5000 to 6000 years.
> 
> Assuming that factors accelerating the rate (higher average temperature and
> rainfall) would be balanced by factors slowing it down (periods of drought
> and areas of vegetation cover) at the minimal average present-day rate of
> 1 foot per 9000 years, every trace of land would have washed into the
> oceans many times during the 2 billion or more years that life is supposed to
> have been present on the planet.

I hate to be boringly repetitive, but I don't suppose you could
supply us with references?

This reminds me of the article I read about a year ago, from
the journal of irreproducible results.  About how the weight
of all the issues of National Geographic printed since it started
have caused the continent of North America to sink a few feet.