Geological Layers do not represent fewer years than we conclude

[sjastro]

The thing is ... (and correct me if I'm wrong) ... you view geology vertically, whereas I view it horizontally.

Like a ladder, you see trilobites on the bottom rung, dinosaurs on the middle rung, and man on the top rung.

Whereas I see the ladder "lying on the ground", with trilobites, dinosaurs, and man all on the same plane.

To you, each rung is an eon, with millions of years between them.

To me, each rung is a unit of time spanning 6025 years now.

This is completely blown apart (pardon the pun) by the K-T boundary containing the element iridium from the asteroid impact.
The boundary can be found in numerous places around the planet where the sedimentary layers are exposed.
Fossils such as dinosaurs and ammonites are never found in the upper layers beyond the boundary.

 

[sjastro]

So, according to Post 72, if I was given a test, and it asked:

How many years passed between trilobites and sea shells?

I'd better answer "25 million years," or it's going to be counted wrong.

Is that correct?

For the example given the difference is in the range 10 - 50 million years.
Brachiopods are hardy critters, they barely survived the Permian-Triassic extinction which wiped out the trilobites, and the following Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event which took out the dinosaurs and exist to this day.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The thing is ... (and correct me if I'm wrong) ... you view geology vertically, whereas I view it horizontally.

Like a ladder, you see trilobites on the bottom rung, dinosaurs on the middle rung, and man on the top rung.

Whereas I see the ladder "lying on the ground", with trilobites, dinosaurs, and man all on the same plane.

Where do you 'see' these things? It's not about how anyone views 'geology'. It's about actually looking at the rocks. Trilobites, dinosaurs and man are not found side-by-side as you seem to suggest.

 

[AV1611VET]

Trilobites, dinosaurs and man are not found side-by-side as you seem to suggest.

Post 12 please.