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Joined: Mar 2008
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It's really simple, CTD, you don't understand some of the concepts involved. Straw man? Your own source said that spherical halos indicate post-kinematic formation. Let me spell that out: decaying elements which are moving don't make spheres. Strangely that is not what is meant by "postkinematic" in geology. It isn't unusual for jargon to develop, but that's not the case here. Geologists mean the same thing as everyone else when they employ the term kinematic. You will notice that they are not talking at all about elements moving along cracks, but about the geological processes of rock formation, how it is deformed and remelted by kinematic processes, and that there are stages in that development that include late-kinematic and post-kinematic formation of the rocks. Actually, they were very much talking about elements moving along cracks, only on a different scale. But even if they weren't, it wouldn't matter. If you want to build a linguistic argument based upon a single sample... Shoot! That might be a fun game to play after all. Anyone up for starting a thread on it? When the scientist says that the intrusions that form polonium halos are post-kinematic, he means they came after the rock was formed. After the rocks were created. For those playing along at home, you will recall that radiohalos cannot even form until there's solid rock. 'Post-kinematic' can refer to "after the rocks were created" or it can refer to other things. Thanks. It's much better if people understand the nature of what they're looking at. False perceptions promote errors. The vertical scale appears to go up by powers of 10, I notice, and the highest mark on the scale is 1,000,000,000,000,000. Sorry, CTD, I thought you understood that this too is a logarithmic scale, a more obvious one than the other, because it has a 1 instead of a zero point. I grew up using a slide rule, so I know what logarithmic scales look like. It's just math, not science. Exponential functions plotted on log-log graphs will be straight lines. Enjoy. How impressive! Thanks for condescending to disclose the logarithmic nature of the graph. I wish that all facts could be pried loose in so few posts. But at any rate, I shan't have to demonstrate this one in the face of unrelenting obfuscation.
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