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Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 10/31/2009 9:56:46 PM
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Marcus.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
By Robert Roy Britt
Ari Matmon, Hebrew University
This natural "desert pavement" in Israel's Negev Desert has been dated to about 1.8 million years old. Earth's surface is mostly fresh in geologic terms.
Weathering — wind and water, freezing and thawing — takes its toll, and longer-term changes caused by volcanic activity and sliding crustal plates, known as tectonic activity, fold today's ground into tomorrow's interior.
The constant makeover of the planet is typically fastest in the mountains, slower in the tectonically inactive deserts.
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 10/31/2009 11:53:44 PM
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Marcus.
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Your welcome.
Interesting that this is in Israel of all places.
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 11/5/2009 12:19:03 AM
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Hardly the 'oldest place on earth'.
Parts of the Grand Canyon in the US are 2-3 times older....
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 11/5/2009 12:34:24 AM
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They weren't talking about oldest layer but the oldest surface. There may be smaller outcroppings that are older but this is the largest, oldest surface area.
From the article:
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It is the oldest known vast expanse of surface area.
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 11/5/2009 1:05:01 AM
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Excellent info.
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 11/5/2009 9:54:10 AM
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This is quite fascinating, since the Earth is only about 6,000 years old. What a discovery! 
http://www.icr.org/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
I'm sadly amused when I hear the term "millions of years" myself.
Exposed for millions of years. I would think it would be absorbed
as dust in that amount of time.............LOL
Still a great discovery.
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 11/5/2009 2:55:25 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Lapidoth
quote:
ORIGINAL: PHmosh1
This is quite fascinating, since the Earth is only about 6,000 years old. What a discovery!
http://www.icr.org/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
I'm sadly amused when I hear the term "millions of years" myself.
Exposed for millions of years. I would think it would be absorbed
as dust in that amount of time.............LOL
Still a great discovery.
If as you state you believe the earth is about 6,000 years old, how is this a great discovery?
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RE: Patch of Israel Desert Is Oldest Place on Earth - 11/5/2009 3:00:38 PM
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I was there..........hahahaah
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