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Progress Report on Grand Canyon Palynology

Burdick, Clifford L. (1972) Progress Report on Grand Canyon Palynology. Creation Research Society Quarterly, 9 (1): 5.

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Abstract

During 1964 and 1965, while I was doing work in the Department of Geochronology at the University of Arizona (with special application to paleobotany and palynology), we did a research project in the Petrified Forest of Arizona. We had especially good results with fine microphotographs of many species of Chinle formation conifers. Thus encouraged, Dr. Kremp next initiated some research in the Grand Canyon in palynology. Considering the wide sections of Paleozoic Era Periods visible of the geologic column, there are all too scanty arrays of macrofossils to demonstrate the evolutionary succession of life. Since microfossils, that is pollen and spores are many times more numerous, it was a well conceived enterprise to check the fossil plant life by means of the spores. Samples were taken by the instructor and turned over to this author to process in the laboratory. The schistose formations from the Permian, the Mississippian, the Cambrian, and the younger Precambrian produced a variety of spores, but the predominant type of spore from all the ages tested was the vesiculate conifer. Such results were deemed by some as out of order, according to current paleontological thought. Accordingly the Creation Research Society sponsored a repeat research project in the Grand Canyon, and also encouraged a corollary project sponsored by Loma Linda University of California. Samples processed by the University of Arizona produced negative results, due to defective technique. On a tour of the canyon sponsored by the Bible-Science Association, Drs. Bullis, and Arthur Chadwick of Loma Linda took rock samples and processed them in their Loma Linda laboratories. At this writing their results practically duplicate the work formerly done by Burdick.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science (General) > QE Geology > QE103 Grand Canyon
Q Science (General) > QE Geology > QE760 Paleontology > QE760.6 Paleobotany
Depositing User: Admin
Date Deposited: 18 Mar 2025 21:39
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2025 21:39
URI: https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/198

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