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Next, The "COMPLETE GEOLOGIC COLLUMN" doesn't exist anywhere in this world except text books and imagination.
I guess the others have shown you the error of this statement adequately.
Edge, in a sense, I do agree with his statement (see message 48, and critique if you wish).
The "geologic column" that he is talking about, is a summary illustration. It gives time divisions and durations. It really gives no information on geology (the rocks) in itself.
That said, Morton indeed does supply many geologic sections ("geologic columns", heavy on the "quotes") that are piles containing representatives of all the periods. These are all different sections ("columns"), made up of different rocks.
There is (of course) no such thing as a "universal" section. Maybe such a "universal" section, the same all over the world, would be what we would expect to see, if we had a nice, uncomplicated,
young earth. But the real earth is old and complicated.
Moose