On Nov 21, 3:37 pm, Alastair wrote:
Oh he's a geologist is he?

That means what, exactly?

He knows what he is talking about when it comes to Earth Science ie
the subjects listed herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_science#Partial_list_of_the_major_...

How often do they change the text books in that science?

And just because a man is qualified to list the geological periods as
they are and/or were in both senses of that term and put them into
their correct order -as it might be considered at the moment; it
doesn't follow that he was talking sense about volcanoes or magma.

He assumes (not having been around at the time) that volcanoes got
their fuel from the organisms that died and went to hell on a plate.

2 things struck me as a difficulty in that concept.

1. They'd have to stay squishy if they were to keep their carbon
content intact but not squishy enough to be rolled out at the top when
a plate descended.

2, The amount of Carbon Dioxide produced in volcanoes is more like the
quantities produced in some sort of chemical reaction between rocks.

There just isn't enough carbon in ocean detritus to supply all the
volcanoes all the time. One such seems to have been bubbling away non
stop since forever.

Maybe I am foolish in misinterpreting what he was telling us and am
fully deserving of the ad hominem attacks I am attracting by stating
the remarkably obvious but feck it.

Who can't see what I can see? Am I that astute as to have left the lot
of you stalled at the ********?

Tie a rope round them and I'll give you all a tug when I pass you next.