[Rockhounds] Peculiar geological time chart

[Alan Goldstein]

The chart you described was in Tom Weller's "Science Made Stupid." The book 
is posted on-line at http://www.besse.at/sms/smsintro.html. Look under the 
link for "Tables."

Alan


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From: <Pmodreski at aol.com>
To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Peculiar geological time chart


Yes, that's quite a chart, Alan; looks like the person who composed it just
did it from memory without bothering to look anything up.  Cute with all 
the
animal and cave-man sketches interspersed all over.

It reminds me of what I always thought was this pretty funny joke  geologic
time chart I've seen--no idea where it came from, and when I saw it  dates 
back
to the days when we just circulated paper copies of things; I used to
sometimes pass this out at teacher workshops for the humor.  Probably if I 
describe
it here, someone will know or find it and send us all a link to  it.  It had
geologic periods or epochs like "Plasticene" and "Obscene" and  maybe
"Ovaltine", and descriptions of what was going on, like, "Big warty ugly 
things",
"Even bigger warty ugly things", "Freeways Upthrust", and "First 
Republicans".
It always makes me laugh to think about it (I still have a  copy, somewhere 
or
other).

I'll leave it to others to find all the good errors in the chart you
showed... other than to quibble about the ages given, some of which are 
pretty  far
off... well, one I'll have to comment on, it seems to say that the 
Pleistocene
Epoch lasted from 1,025,000 to 25,000 years, and that its duration  was
10,000,000; that doesn't exactly jive very well.

Cheers, Pete





In a message dated 10/22/2008 7:14:47 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
deepskyspy at insightbb.com writes:

(Previously posted on PaleoList)... This link will take you to a truly
bizarre geological time chart that was sent to our park's gift shop with 
hopes  of
being sold. It has some many mistakes it is truly unique. The only funnier
chart I have seen was done for "Science Made Stupid" and it was done
intentionally!

How many errors can you find? I've give away one - it  has the Permian 
period
in the  Mesozoic.

http://www.lakeneosho.org/Paleolist/55/index.html

Alan

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