WWII airplanes are now beneath thousands of "annual" ice layers (Talk.Origins)

Claim CD410:


 * Ice cores are claimed to have as many as 135,000 annual layers. Yet airplanes of the "Lost Squadron" were buried under 263 feet of ice in 48 years, or about 5.5 feet per year. This contradicts the presumption that the wafer-thin layers in the ice cores could be annual layers.

Source: Vardiman, Larry, 1992 (Apr.). Ice cores and the age of the earth. Impact 226.

CreationWiki response:

Talk Origins is making the assumption that neither the interior of Greenland nor Antarctica were ever active glaciers. It is quite likely that they were in the past, particularly given the conditions immediately following the Flood. Furthermore, Talk Origins omits the fact that the planes were also under hundreds of layers of ice, so all it would take to get the observed ice in both the interior of Greenland and Antarctica would have had much higher snowfall rates in the first 1000 to 2000 years following the Biblical Flood. So the area where the "Lost Squadron" was buried is a good model for past conditions in the areas where ice core dating is done, even if it is not for their present conditions.

Aviões da Segunda Guerra Mundial estão agora debaixo de milhares de camadas de gelo "anuais" (Talk.Origins)