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I don't know who downvotes this because parent does have a point: there are extensive chemical transfers involved in the creation of minerals and crystals, it's
by zdkl 10y ago
I don't know who downvotes this because parent does have a point: there are extensive chemical transfers involved in the creation of minerals and crystals, it's not obvious at all that the atmospheric bubbles where chemically isolated from the encasing crystal afaict
- akamaka 10y agoI don't even need to read the article or paper to see that the commenter didn't think through what he was saying. He specifically uses a quote that says "different ages - including the modern day" were used, but then suggests that the researches only used one "recent" sample.
- maxerickson 10y agoI didn't down vote the above comment, but when the paper is available, complaints should usually be about something specific in the paper, not hand wavy concerns about methodology. http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2016/07/08/G37937.1.full.pdf http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2016/07/08/G37937.1... The paper discusses the type of crystal they studied and how they formed (and cites further work on those topics).