• If the Earth is 4.5 Billion years old. With a uniformitarian outlook.
  • The sun, currently 1,989,100 * 10²⁴ kilograms, is loosing mass at a rate of (4300 * 10⁶ kilograms/second). As there are 60 sec/min * 60 min/hour * 24 hour/day * 365 day/year = 31,536,000 seconds in a 365 day year. I think that yields 1,356,048 * 10¹¹ kilograms /year. This is uniformitarianism and is bad math as the a larger mass would yield a greater mass per unit. So over 4 million years you would * 4 * 10⁶ or add 5,424,192 * 10¹⁷ more mass to the sun. The Heat and Gravity at that point would have a great impact upon the surface of the earth, indeed, would the earth exist?
  • The moon is 238,866 miles away. The Moon travels around the Earth at a little more than half a mile per second; its speed is slowing and the satellite is gradually moving away from Earth and is moving even further away at about 4 cm per year. The moon would be closer and the tidal effects would engulf the world twice a day. And in fact in just 1.4 billion years, the moon should have been in physical contact with the earth's surface. Source....
  • The earth's rotation is slowing 1 thousandth of a second per day. The earth's spin would have such angular momentum that everything on the surface would fly off.
  • The sea's would be saltier. 30% of rain hits the ocean. Salinization and evaporation occurs. The ocean is 3.6% salt and would take about 5000 years

Comet may have caused extinction WASHINGTON (AP) - History's most devastating extinction, the death of almost 90% of life on Earth, may have been triggered by the impact of an asteroid or comet like the one that much later killed off the dinosaurs. Researchers analyzing the chemistry of ancient deposits in China and Japan concluded that a space rock three to seven miles across smashed into the Earth about 251 million years ago, the time of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. The study appears Friday in the journal Science. In what has been called "the great dying," 90% of all ocean species and 70% of all land species vanished within a short period of time - a key event in the history of life on Earth. "This was the mother of all extinctions," said Luann Becker, a University of Washington geochemist and lead author of the study. Large rocks from space smashing to Earth can set off an immense wave of superheated vapor that can roll for hundreds of miles, killing everything in its path.

Originally published in Science Express as 10.1126/science.1075287 on October 10, 2002 Science, Vol. 298, Issue 5596, 1224-1227, November 8, 2002

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Search Medline for articles by: Ohkouchi, N. || Hayes, J. M. Spatial and Temporal Offsets Between Proxy Records in a Sediment Drift
Nao Ohkouchi,1* Timothy I. Eglinton,1 Lloyd D. Keigwin,2 John M. Hayes2

Chronologies for Late Quaternary marine sediment records are usually based on radiocarbon ages of planktonic foraminifera. Signals carried by other sedimentary components measured in parallel can provide complementary paleoclimate information. A key premise is that microfossils and other indicators within a given sediment horizon are of equal age. We show here that haptophyte-derived alkenones isolated from Bermuda Rise drift sediments are up to 7000 years older than coexisting planktonic foraminifera. This temporal offset, which is apparently due to lateral transport of alkenones on fine-grained particles from the Nova Scotian margin, markedly influences molecular estimates of sea surface temperatures. More broadly, the observation raises questions about both the temporal and the geographic fidelity of paleoenvironmental records encoded by readily transported components of sediments.

1 Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
* Present address: Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan.

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