tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post3220290081059551918..comments2024-03-28T00:46:01.084+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: The Lower Palaeozoic sandstones at StonehengeBRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-5710288040796126862017-06-21T13:06:04.871+01:002017-06-21T13:06:04.871+01:00Here we are, giving you a glowing plug, Myris, and...Here we are, giving you a glowing plug, Myris, and all you do is complain. Maybe I should just ignore your new papers in the future......<br /><br />Anyway, for as long as I discuss the things that are in the literature, I will apply the same principles as I would if I was reviewing something as a referee -- that means careful scrutiny, and it means asking questions where things are not adequately explained, and flagging up things that are in my view not soundly supported by the evidence cited.<br /><br />Who's talking about rafts and icebergs? Not me.....BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-48429541445282811322017-06-21T10:19:54.496+01:002017-06-21T10:19:54.496+01:00The paper is far weightier than any 'floating&...The paper is far weightier than any 'floating' iceberg.<br /><br />'Waiting by the River' is an abstract that I think can be accessed. Dr Ixer does not appear to have a copy anywhere but much of the point (and it was written in the dark, pre-Pet Rock Boys, ages) will be restated in the up-coming 'round up paper' (not the Antiquity paper THAT will be far more fun). <br />Incidentally there have been a few bodies floating past. <br />I do recommend that you read the Comrade Inspector Chen Cao novels but you need a strong stomach and a soothing bowl of Dragon Well Tea (see prices of said tea on Amazon!!!!)Do, do read them ALL.<br />You stagger along the fine line between disingenuousness and determined ignorance.<br />The apparent age differences are not because they are two different rocks with separate ages but purely a sampling issue (three more samples have been submitted for dating. The rocks are the same- and the age 'difference' probably is the related to the amount of mudstone clasts. This is mad clear in much detail and I am certain you fully understood that.<br />You know as well as anyone that age dates will range and one takes the optimum.<br /><br />Were Dr Ixer to find the abstract I am certain that self publicist that he is, he will display it. Its main use now is to show how long he has dismissed the floating raft idea. <br /><br />Don't be tiresome there are people who take this academic fun at apparent face value, stop short changing them.<br /><br />DO SOOOOOOO agree about the call to resample buried orthostats. Obvious but ..... <br />M<br />Myris of Alexandrianoreply@blogger.com