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Coragyps
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Message 27 of 58 (78277)
01-13-2004 7:11 PM
Reply to: Message 24 by JonF
01-13-2004 5:13 PM


At Rock properties I find a table that shows basalt as 0.1% to 1.0% porosity, and granite as 0.5% to 1.5% porosity; that's not very porous for either type, and the granite is more porous than the basalt.
Sandstone that's permeable enough to make decent reservoir rock for oil (and, I presume, for water) has ten times that porosity or better. And, in any case, whatever, porosity is a bulk property of rock. The pores are between grains, where the grains, like zircons, that a geologist hand-picks to do dating on are NOT porous. And argon, yet once again, does not enter into "cationic and anionic exchange" or otherwise give a red rat's ass about chemical reactions of any sort under conditions encountered in rocks.
Like JonF said: evidence, please.

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Coragyps
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Message 44 of 58 (78706)
01-15-2004 5:45 PM
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01-15-2004 4:48 PM


the bible even made this point thousands of years before anyone had drilled 7 miles into the earth,
The same book that made the point that the Earth is disk-shaped and immovable? The same one that tells how to cure leprosy in humans by killing pigeons over water? The same one that tells you how to diagnose leprosy in houses? The one with talking snakes?
Yeah.

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