... science :D?

[kaberett]

We welcome the opportunity to discuss the points raised by Glikson in his comment, which discussed evidence for other possible impact-continental flood basalt-mass extinction correlations and also critiqued several aspects of our proposed terrestrial mechanism to create the geologic 'signals' commonly attributed only to large impacts. We will start by briefly clarifying where Glikson has misread and misunderstood several aspects of the proposed "Verneshot" phenomena. Then we will revisit the issue raised by Glikson's advocacy of additional contemporaneous impact-continental flood basalt-mass extinction incidents whose traces are argued to be preserved within the geologic record.

Glikson states/implies that we questioned the standard view that observed shock planar deformation features in minerals require shock pressure less than 8–35 GPa, and that we argued that these features can be made by routine volcanic explosions. We did not.

Excerpt of: J. Phipps Morgan, T.J. Reston, C.R. Ranero (2005) Reply to A. Glikson's comment on "Contemporaneous mass extinctions, continental flood basalts, and 'impact signals': Are mantle plume-induced lithospheric gas explosions the causal link?" [EPSL 217 (2004) 263–285], Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236:938--941.

I-- am kind of impressed by how vicious this is? I mean, I've seen worse, but - wow. Not looking forward to the point at which I'm causing controversy.

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I'm going to borrow finch's twenty-one questions for Three Weeks of Dreamwidth. So for today:

1. Why did you sign up for Dreamwidth?

Because of liv, basically. Because (cool) people were talking about it, and LiveJournal had pissed me off one too many times, and I was tentatively delighted by the mission statements, and -

- and perhaps, more to the point, is why I didn't - why it took me so long to get around to creating an account here, too. Because: I was scared that I didn't belong here, because I wasn't (at that point) creating fanworks at all, never mind regularly; because I thought I wasn't creative enough, wasn't cool enough.

Turns out I had fundamentally misunderstood both Dreamwidth's aims and my own level of coolness. The two of them taken together made me scared to participate. Turns out that was a bit of a mistake, really, and I am absolutely delighted to be here. :-)

Comments

[liv]

Scientific bitchiness always stands out more because the normal tone of scientific discourse has polite and collegial as a baseline. But yes, poor Glikson getting excoriated!

I'm really pleased that I was instrumental in bringing you over to DW, the community and the site itself benefit so much from your presence! I hope you didn't ever think of me as creative or cool, because those are exactly what I'm not, and I still love it here.

[gwendraith]

I came to DW because LJ pissed me off once too often as well. I also liked the way DW was like the old Brad LJ days. It was a big thing for me to move as I had been at LJ for 8 years, 10 years now but I just cross post there as a courtesy to LJ friends, comments are disabled.