TAB model
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The Tectonically-Associated Biologic Provinces (TAB) concept is a theoretical model put forth in 1983 by John Woodmorappe. TAB attempts to explain the stratigraphic separation of fossils following a exhaustive evaluation of distributions. The TAB model presumes that tectonic activity plays a major role in the vertical position of the sediment and links the flora and fauna of a pre-flood geographic area or province with sedimentary deposits existing today.
What are the four main TABs?
The model is based on the observation that many periods share a great many fossil families between them. TAB 1 is the lower Paleozoic (Cambrian-Devonian), containing almost exclusively marine fossils. TAB 2 is the Upper Paleozoic (Carboniferous - Permian), TAB 3 is the Mesozoic (Triassic-Cretaceous) while TAB 4, usually the highest strata is the Cenozoic.
It was observed that more than half of the earth's land surface has two or fewer of the four TABs superposed at any one locality. This fits in well with the TAB concept that the strata are more related to the ecology that they represent than with the time they are laid down.
Related References
- An Evaluation of the John Woodmorappe Flood Geology Model-Part Two by A. W. Melhert. Creation Research Society Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3, December 1993, 30:149-159.
- A diluviological treatise on the stratigraphic separation of fossils. by John Woodmorappe. Creation Research Society Quarterly 20(3):133–185, 1983.
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